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| Issuer | Belarus |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | At center, a relief portrait effigy of Belarusian writer Mikhas Lynkov facing slightly left. To the left of the portrait, against the background of a stylized open book, the subject's name 'МIХАСЬ ЛЫНЬКОЎ' is inscribed in three lines in Cyrillic script. The dates of his life, '1899–1975', appear in the lower right portion of the field along the rim. |
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Mikhas Lynkov was a Belarusian Soviet-era prose writer best known for his partisan war fiction and his role in shaping Socialist Realist literature in the republic during the 1930s and 1940s. This coin is part of Belarus's post-independence commemorative rouble series celebrating national cultural figures — a program that ran through the late 1990s as the young state worked to establish a distinctly Belarusian intellectual heritage separate from broader Soviet identity.