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2 Hryvni Olexander Dovzhenko
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Weight | 12.8 g |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents an allegorical scene in which a young boy stands in a small boat, holding a candle, drifting along a stylized river symbolizing the passage of time toward his destiny. To the left of the central composition, the date 2004 appears above the small National Emblem of Ukraine (trident), beneath which the denomination 2 ГРИВНІ is inscribed. To the right, the legend УКРАЇНА runs in a semicircular arc, and the mint logotype of the National Bank of Ukraine Banknote Printing and Minting Works appears within the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | УКРАЇНА 2004 2 ГРИВНІ (Translation: Ukraine 2004 2 Hryvni) |
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Dovzhenko's rehabilitation in Soviet cultural memory was always incomplete. Celebrated abroad — his 1930 film Earth was named among the greatest films ever made by international critics as early as 1958 — he spent his final decades in Moscow, effectively exiled from Ukraine after Stalin personally condemned his 1943 screenplay Ukraine in Flames as nationalist. He was never allowed to return. This coin was issued on the centenary of his birth, part of Ukraine's broader post-independence project of reclaiming figures the Soviet apparatus had simultaneously exploited and suppressed.