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2 Hryvni Volodymyr Ivasiuk
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Reverse description | The obverse features a portrait of the Ukrainian composer Volodymyr Ivasiuk facing slightly left, set amid viburnum leaves against the background of a stylized vinyl record. A semicircular legend bearing his name ВОЛОДИМИР ІВАСЮК arcs above the portrait, with the years of his life 1949–1979 inscribed below in the field. |
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| Mintage | 2009 - Special Uncirculated - 35,000 |
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Volodymyr Ivasiuk died in 1979 at thirty years old — his body found in a forest outside Lviv, officially ruled a suicide, almost certainly a KGB killing. He had written "Chervona Ruta" at nineteen, and it became one of the most widely sung Ukrainian-language songs of the Soviet period, which is precisely why the authorities found him dangerous. This coin was issued thirty years after his death, the same year Ukraine marked the anniversary with renewed public acknowledgment that the Soviet verdict on his death was a lie.