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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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| Diameter | 33 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a panoramic composition centered on the principal fragment of the Park of Eternal Glory memorial complex in Kyiv: the Obelisk of Glory above the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, flanked by a portion of the Alley of Fallen Heroes with the graves of defenders and liberators of the city. To the right of the obelisk stand depictions of the Church of the Saviour at Berestovo and the Great Belfry of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, set against a backdrop of the Dnipro River and the left-bank city district, with trees and ornamental shrubs in the middle ground; to the left, a chestnut spray with three blossoms provides a naturalistic accent. The circumferential legend reads МІСТО-ГЕРОЙ КИЇВ at the upper arc and 1941-1945 at the lower arc, commemorating the city's designation as a Hero City of the Soviet Union. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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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.