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2 Hryvni Petro Prokopovych
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Petro Prokopovych (1775–1850) founded the world's first practical movable-frame beehive in 1814, predating Lorenzo Langstroth's patented design by nearly four decades — a priority that Western apicultural history long failed to acknowledge. A Ukrainian landowner who eventually managed over 10,000 hives across his Poltava estate, Prokopovych also established the first beekeeping school in the Russian Empire in 1828, training hundreds of students over two decades of operation.
Ukraine has issued numerous commemorative 2 hryvni pieces honoring figures of national scientific and cultural significance since the late 1990s. Prokopovych's inclusion reflects a deliberate reclamation of Ukrainian contributions to European science obscured under Soviet historiography.