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20 Roubles Ivan Shamiakin

Issuer National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
Year 2021
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Diameter 38.61 mm
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Obverse description Central field features a stylised tree with spreading branches and exposed roots, rendered in high relief against a dark frosted background. The branches are inscribed with the titles of Ivan Shamiakin's literary works in Cyrillic script, including 'ЗЕНІТ', 'АТЛАНТЫ І КАРЫЯТЫДЫ', 'ТРЫВОЖНАЕ ШЧАСЦЕ', 'ПЕТРАГРАД-БРЭСТ', 'СНЕЖНЫЯ ЗІМЫ', 'ГЛЫБОКАЯ ПЛЫНЬ', 'ВЯЛІКАЯ КНЯГІНЯ', 'ВАЗЬМУ ТВОЙ БОЛЬ', 'КРЫНІЦЫ', 'ЗЛАЯ ЗОРКА', and 'СЭРЦА НА ДАЛОНІ', among others. The circular legend 'РЭСПУБЛІКА БЕЛАРУСЬ' arcs along the upper border, with the denomination '20 РУБЛЁЎ', the date '2021', and the fineness mark 'Ag925' positioned along the lower periphery.
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Reverse lettering І. ШАМЯКIН 1921-2004
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Ivan Shamiakin was one of the most widely read Belarusian Soviet authors of the postwar decades, his novels circulating in millions of copies across the USSR during the 1950s through 1970s. This issue marks the centenary of his birth in 1921. Shamiakin was a rare figure in Soviet Belarusian letters — a writer who managed to address wartime trauma and rural life with enough candor to earn genuine popular readership, without fatally antagonizing censors.

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