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5 Hryven The Executed Renaissance. Maik Yohansen
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central to the design is a stylized rendering of the Cyrillic word СЛОВО ('word'), the name of the renowned Kharkiv House of Writers of the 1930s, with the texture of each letter evoking sprouting winter wheat symbolizing the young generation of artists whose lives were cut short under totalitarian repression. The letter 'О' is depicted as shot through and bleeding, serving as a powerful allegorical wound commemorating the tragedy of the Executed Renaissance. The denomination '5₴' and the issuer inscription 'УКРАЇНА' appear in the field, with the year '2026' completing the legend. The overall composition combines coloured relief and matte textures to heighten the commemorative and symbolic impact. |
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| Reverse lettering | МАЙК ЙОГАНСЕН 1895 - 1937 |
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Maik Yohansen — poet, linguist, and central figure of the 1920s Ukrainian literary movement known as the Rozstriliane Vidrodzhennia, or "Executed Renaissance" — was shot by Soviet secret police in 1937 during Stalin's Great Terror. The broader group he belonged to represented the most concentrated literary flowering in Ukrainian cultural history, and the most concentrated Soviet destruction of it: hundreds of writers, artists, and intellectuals liquidated within a decade.
This coin is part of an ongoing NBU series commemorating individual victims of that purge. Yohansen's inclusion is notable given that his experimental prose and linguistic theory remained effectively banned in Soviet Ukraine for decades after his execution.