10 Hryven St. Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv

St. Volodymyr's Cathedral was not a medieval foundation but a 19th-century nationalist project, consecrated in 1896 after four decades of interrupted construction — funding disputes and structural failures delayed it repeatedly. The timing was deliberate: the cathedral was conceived as a visual declaration of Ukrainian Orthodox identity at a moment when Kyiv was firmly under Russian imperial administration.

This 2023 issue enters a series the National Bank of Ukraine has sustained through active wartime minting, with architectural subjects chosen in part as a form of cultural documentation.