Writer and poet Yakub Kolas, the 110th Anniversary of the Birthday

Obverse

in the center of the disc - the relief image of cupolas of the Intercession Cathedral on the Moat on the Red Square and Spassky Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, to the left above – the two-headed eagle with wings down, under the cathedral to the right - the mint trade mark, at the bottom in the centre, in three lines – the denomination and year of issue: "1 РУБЛЬ 1992" (1 RUBLE 1992), along the rim – semicircular inscriptions, to the left: "БАНК" (BANK), to the right: "РОССИИ" (OF RUSSIA).

Reverse

in the centre of the disc – the relief portrait of Yakub Kolas dressed in shirt with ethnically ornamented embroidery, to the left and to the right of it – dates: "1882" and "1956", along the rim below – semicircular inscriptions, to the left: "ЯКУБ" (YAKUB), to the right: "КОЛАС" (KOLAS).

Authors

The artist: A.V. Baklanov
The sculptor: N. A. Nosov
Mint: Leningrad Mint (ЛМД)
The edge: two inscriptions "ОДИН РУБЛЬ" (ONE RUBLE) divided by two dots.

Yakub Kolas (Konstantin Mikhailovich Mickiewicz, (1882-1956), - a Byelorussian writer , National Poet of Byelorussia (1926), the member (1928) and vice president (1929) of the Byelorussian Academy of Sciences. His collected poetries ("Songs of Captivity" and "Songs of Grief"), poems ("The New Land" and "Simon the Musician"), plays and stories are deeply rooted in national tradition.