Belarus established its National Library in 1922, one year after the founding of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, making it an institution older than the Soviet union's formal consolidation. The current building — a 23-story rhombicuboctahedron completed in Minsk in 2006 — cost an estimated $100 million and was partly funded through a compulsory salary deduction imposed on Belarusian workers. Lukashenko personally presided over the opening ceremony.
This issue belongs to a long-running Belarusian commemorative silver program that has documented national institutions with considerable consistency since the mid-1990s.
Belarus established its National Library in 1922, one year after the founding of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, making it an institution older than the Soviet union's formal consolidation. The current building — a 23-story rhombicuboctahedron completed in Minsk in 2006 — cost an estimated $100 million and was partly funded through a compulsory salary deduction imposed on Belarusian workers. Lukashenko personally presided over the opening ceremony.
This issue belongs to a long-running Belarusian commemorative silver program that has documented national institutions with considerable consistency since the mid-1990s.