20 Roubles Francisk Skorina's Way. Padova

Francisk Skorina, the Belarusian polymath and physician, printed the first book in the East Slavic tradition in Prague in 1517 — a translation of the Psalter into a language his own people could read. He later established a printing house in Vilnius around 1522, making him a foundational figure in both Belarusian cultural history and the broader history of Slavic typography. The Padova stop on this "Skorina's Way" series references his time studying at the University of Padua, where he earned a doctorate in medicine in 1512 after famously defending his examination before a panel skeptical of admitting a foreigner.