2 Roubles Church of the Transfiguration. Chechersk

The Church of the Transfiguration in Chechersk is one of the rare surviving examples of wooden ecclesiastical architecture from the late 18th century in the Gomel region, a district that lost an extraordinary proportion of its heritage sites during the Second World War. Belarus has systematically issued bimetallic circulating commemoratives of this type since the early 2000s, using the format to document architectural monuments that receive little international attention. Chechersk itself was almost entirely destroyed during the German occupation.