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