20 Roubles Wood carving

Belarus has issued themed silver series around traditional folk crafts since the early 2000s, and this piece belongs to that broader program celebrating artisanal trades that industrialization largely displaced by the mid-twentieth century. Wood carving as a cottage industry was particularly embedded in the Polesie and Vitebsk regions, where raw timber was historically the most accessible medium for both functional and decorative objects.

KM#716 is a relatively low-mintage issue, as is typical of the National Bank's collector series — most run to no more than a few thousand pieces.