2 Hryvni Volodymyr Sosyura

Volodymyr Sosyura was one of Soviet Ukraine's most politically complicated literary figures — a nationalist poet who wrote "Love Ukraine" in 1944, then watched it condemned by the Communist Party in 1951 as ideologically dangerous. He spent years writing public self-criticism to survive. This coin was issued four years after Ukrainian independence, during a period when reclaiming suppressed cultural figures was an explicit state project.

The nickel brass composition was introduced for Ukrainian commemoratives in the mid-1990s when the hryvnia itself was only newly established, having replaced the karbovanets in September 1996.