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2 Roubles St. Sophia Cathedral. Polotsk
| Issuer | National Bank of the Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The copper-nickel centre features the State Coat of Arms of the Republic of Belarus in high relief, depicting a sun rising over a globe flanked by wheat sheaves bound with a ribbon in the national colours, surmounted by a five-pointed star, with a scroll below bearing the Cyrillic legend РЭСПУБЛIКА БЕЛАРУСЬ. The brass-coloured outer ring carries the country name БЕЛАРУСЬ arched along the upper periphery and the denomination 2 РУБЛI along the lower periphery, with traditional Belarusian folk ornamental motifs flanking both sides. |
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| Obverse lettering | БЕЛАРУСЬ 2 РУБЛI |
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St. Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk is among the oldest stone structures in the former Soviet space, with its earliest construction dating to the mid-11th century under Vseslav of Polotsk — the same prince later immortalized in the Tale of Igor's Campaign. The current Baroque structure is an 18th-century rebuild after Swedish forces used the original medieval cathedral as a powder magazine, which subsequently exploded during the Great Northern War.
Belarus has issued a sustained series of bimetallic circulation commemoratives pairing regional architectural heritage with everyday denominations, of which this is one entry.