10 Hryven Liberation of Kharkiv from the Fascist Invaders

Kharkiv was occupied by German forces twice during World War II — briefly retaken by Soviet troops in February 1943, then lost again weeks later in the Third Battle of Kharkov, one of the last major German offensive successes on the Eastern Front. The city was finally liberated in August 1943 during Operation Rumyantsev, after some of the most brutal urban fighting of the entire war. An estimated 70% of the city's industrial infrastructure had been deliberately destroyed before the Germans withdrew.

Ukraine issued this coin on the 70th anniversary of that liberation.