About 600 thousand people were involved in the elimination of the
consequences of the largest nuclear power disaster in the history of
nuclear energy - military personnel, firefighters, law enforcement
officers, doctors, scientists and volunteers, who, at the cost of their
own health and lives, reduced the scale of the tragedy for millions of
people in Ukraine and abroad. The name of the coin echoes the name
of the monument “To Those Who Saved the World” in Chernobyl, which
was created by firefighters (the author of the project is Ivan Symonov)
in memory of their colleagues who, in the first minutes of the
accident, took on the devastating blow of the fiery element.
The obverse of the coin bears the inscription
CHORNOB, in which the
first two letters are stylized as the number 40, which symbolically
combines the time dimension of the tragedy with its name, and the
unfinished image of the letter B plays the role of a compositional
transition to the reverse. In the upper part of the composition there is
a small State Emblem of Ukraine, the inscription УКРАЇНА, the year of
minting of the coin – 2026. In the upper left there is the logo of the
Banknote and Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine. At the bottom of
the coin – the denomination 5 and the graphic sign of the hryvnia.
On the reverse of the coin there is the inscription БІЛЬ, which in its
meaning echoes the unfinished word on the obverse, and also reminds
of the suffering caused by the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
and the deep sorrow that has been forever imprinted in the collective
memory. In the upper part of the composition there is the inscription
40 YEARS OF THE CHORNOBYL DISASTER.
Artist: Kovalenko
Mykola
Circulation (announced/actual), pcs.: 50000/35000
Weight,
g: 16.54
Diameter, mm: 35
Category of mintage quality:
special uncirculated
Border: fluted