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200 000 Karbovantsiv Hero-City of Kyiv
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Karbovanets (1992-1996) |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued in 1995 as part of Ukraine's inaugural commemorative coin program, this piece belongs to a Hero-City series honoring Soviet-era designations awarded to cities that endured exceptional sieges during the Second World War. Kyiv received the Hero City title in 1965, on the twentieth anniversary of victory — a politically calculated moment under Brezhnev when the USSR was systematically codifying its war mythology. Ukraine's decision to carry that Soviet honorific into its own national coinage within just four years of independence reflects the complicated negotiation between new statehood and inherited historical memory.