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2 Hryvni Petro Hryhorenko
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a bold right-facing portrait bust of Petro Hryhorenko in the upper field, depicted mid-speech with an open mouth and an expressive, animated expression. His right hand is raised in a gesture of address, with the fingers clearly rendered in high relief. Along the lower arc of the field, the Cyrillic inscription ПЕТРО ГРИГОРЕНКО is inscribed, with his birth and death years 1907 and 1987 displayed in two lines to the right of centre beneath the portrait. The overall design conveys the subject's identity as an orator and dissident figure. |
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Petro Hryhorenko served as a Red Army general before becoming one of the Soviet Union's most prominent dissidents, founding an early human rights monitoring group and spending years confined to Soviet psychiatric institutions — a favored KGB method for neutralizing politically inconvenient figures without formal trial. He was stripped of his citizenship in 1978 while abroad for medical treatment, dying in American exile in 1987. Ukraine's rehabilitation of his memory was part of a broader post-independence reclamation of figures the Soviet state had erased.