2 Roubles Estate. Red Coast

Part of Belarus's long-running regional series celebrating the country's administrative districts, this issue highlights the Red Coast (Чырвоны Бераг) estate in the Zhlobin district of Gomel Oblast. The manor's history is inseparable from the Kozel-Poklevsky family, Polish-Russian industrialists whose fortune derived largely from Siberian vodka distilling concessions. The estate passed through Soviet hands and was heavily damaged during the Second World War, when German forces used the Gomel region as a staging ground during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa in the summer of 1941.