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5 Hryven The Executed Renaissance. Ivan Padalka
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a high-relief three-quarter bust portrait of Ukrainian avant-garde artist Ivan Padalka facing slightly left, rendered in a realistic sculptural style with fine detailing of facial features, hair, and attire including a jacket and tie. To the left of the portrait, a large ornamental background motif of interlocking abstract forms — evoking the decorative vocabulary of Ukrainian folk art and Padalka's own graphic style — fills the field in contrasting mirror and matte finishes. The Cyrillic inscription ІВАН ПАДАЛКА is inscribed vertically along the left side of the field, flanked by the artist's birth and death years 1894 and 1937, underscoring the tragic brevity of his life under Stalinist repression. The dark mirrored background provides strong contrast against the frosted relief elements, lending the design a somber, commemorative character. |
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| Reverse lettering | ІВАН ПАДАЛКА 1894 - 1937 |
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Ivan Padalka was a Ukrainian avant-garde painter associated with the Boichukist movement — a school of monumental art founded by Mykhailo Boichuk that attempted to synthesize Byzantine tradition with modernist form. Soviet authorities initially promoted the group, then destroyed it. Padalka was arrested during the Stalinist terror and shot in 1937, one of countless Ukrainian cultural figures liquidated in what historians now call the Executed Renaissance — the systematic annihilation of an entire generation of Ukrainian intellectuals, writers, and artists between roughly 1917 and 1941.
The NBU's commemorative series on this subject began appearing in the 2020s as part of a broader official rehabilitation of figures erased from Soviet-era memory.