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5 Hryven Chernobyl. Renaissance. The European Elk
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic, Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a naturalistic color-printed landscape composition dominated by a standing adult European elk (Alces alces) in the left foreground, rendered in fine detail against a wooded and open terrain background. To the right, an elk cow accompanies a calf, conveying the theme of natural regeneration within the exclusion zone. Bilingual inscriptions identifying the species appear at the upper left, with the Cyrillic common name above the Linnaean binomial in Latin characters. |
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Issued as part of Ukraine's ongoing "Chernobyl. Renaissance" series, which documents the unexpected ecological recovery of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone following the 1986 reactor disaster. With human activity largely absent for nearly four decades, the zone has become one of Europe's more unusual wildlife refuges — European elk populations among them — observed and studied by researchers who enter under strict permit.
The series has drawn attention from conservation bodies precisely because it uses a national coinage program to document rewilding in a contaminated landscape that no government planned to rehabilitate.