Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Stus
Tuesday, 08 January 2008
Rating: 2 grivnas
metall: nickel silver
circulation: 35000
diametr: 31 mm
The weight: 12,8 grams
herd: corrugated
series: Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine
category: ordinary
NBU Price: 22
The coin is dedicated to Vasyl Stus (1938 – 1985), a public figure, translator, literary critic and poet of a tragic fate, whose works are translated into many languages of the world. A tireless fighter for human rights Vasyl Stus was a member ( in 1979 –
On the coin obverse against the glass background there is a semicircular inscription: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ ((National Bank of Ukraine), under which there is the small National Emblem of Ukraine, a conventionalized composition symbolizing the way to t
On the coin reverse there is depicted a portrait of Vasyl Stus against the background of Alla Horska conventionalized mosaics Woman-Bird, to the right of which there is the semicircular inscription: ВАСИЛЬ СТУС (Vasyl Stus
artist: Volodymyr Atamanchuk
sculptor: Volodymyr Atamanchuk