20 Roubles The Cathedral of St Alexander Nevsky

The Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Kobrin was built in 1868 under Russian Imperial patronage, part of a deliberate policy of Russification following the suppression of the 1863–1864 January Uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian territories. The National Bank of Belarus issued a substantial series of architectural and religious commemoratives in the 2000s and early 2010s, of which this is one entry. The pad-printing technique used here — applying color to the coin's surface through a silicone transfer process — was widely adopted by Belarusian issues of this period to differentiate coins within otherwise crowded thematic series.