After the orthodox Easter, on May 11, 2013 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus throughout the series “Outstanding Figures of Belarus” will issue a postage block devoted to the prominent representative of orthodox church Сyril of Turov”.

Designer: Ivan Lukin. Printing: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: frame 131/2: 133/4. Size of stamp in the souvenir sheet: 26 x 37 mm. Size of block: 97 x 70 mm. While printing the souvenir sheets they used the technology of thermal stamping by metalized foil of golden colour. Edition: 15.000 copies. Printed at the Republican Unitary Enterprise “Bobruisk Integrated Printing House A. T.  Nepogodin”.

Сyril Turovsky is one of the fifteen Saints of Belarus. He was a church leader and theologian. He was born about 1130 in Turov (Gomel region nowadays) in a rich family and died after 1190. At a mature age he renounced his inheritance and took monastic vows in St. Boris and Gleb monastery of Turov. Being the Bishop of Turov Kyril left his See and devoted himself fully to spiritual writing. After his death Cyril was declared a Saint.