Located in Eastern Europe, BELARUS was part of the Soviet Union until that large, Communist entity collapsed in the early 1990s. Belarus is now an independent country southeast of Latvia, east of Poland and Lithuania, west of Russia, and north of Ukraine. Belarus is among the countries that issue special commemorative coins, some of which are shaped like ovals, rectangles, and squares (as listed on my Odd-Shaped Coins page). Like Ukraine - which I posted about earlier - Belarus had an inflation problem with its Belarusian Ruble currency right after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The banknotes in my collection (shown above) have some of the lowest denominations as there is even a 5,000,000 Rublei. The banknotes I have in my collection are 50 Kapeeks and 25, 50, 100, and 1000 Rublei. Four banknotes have various animals that live in Belarus, while the 1000 Rublei banknote features a building at the National Academy of Sciences in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. 100 Kapeeks equal 1 Ruble (Rublei for plural).
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