1 Rouble The Tower of Kamenets

Kamenets Tower — locally called the Bela Vezha, or White Tower, despite its brick being distinctly red — was built around 1271 by a Volhynian master builder named Aleksa, on the orders of Prince Vladimir Vasilkovich. It survived the medieval period largely intact, an unusual fate for a structure in a region repeatedly crossed by armies from every direction. Belarus launched its architectural monuments circulation series in the early 2000s partly to assert a distinct national heritage separate from the Soviet institutional identity, and the Tower was an early and deliberate choice.