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5 Hryven Yeletskyi Holy Dormition Cloister
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Hryvnia (1996-date) |
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| Reverse description | At center, the miraculous icon of the Yeletska Mother of God is depicted within a radiant oval mandorla, showing the Virgin Mary enthroned and holding the Christ Child, set against a background of stylized rays. The mandorla is surrounded by the spreading branches of a fir tree rendered in high relief, its trunk rising from entwined roots at the base of the field. Along the lower portion of the field, an ornamental band of traditional Ukrainian interlace knotwork with quatrefoil medallions frames the composition. The circular legend 'ОБРАЗ ПРЕСВЯТОЇ БОГОРОДИЦІ ЄЛЕЦЬКОЇ' is inscribed along the upper arc on a scrolled ribbon in stylized Cyrillic lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | ОБРАЗ ПРЕСВЯТОЇ БОГОРОДИЦІ ЄЛЕЦЬКОЇ |
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The Yeletskyi Monastery in Chernihiv is among the oldest surviving monastic foundations in Kievan Rus, with its origins traced to the eleventh century — tradition holds it was founded by Prince Sviatoslav Yaroslavych around 1069, though documentary evidence is fragmentary. The complex survived Mongol destruction in 1239 only partially, and several of its structures bear the scars of that assault in their irregular medieval reconstruction.
Ukraine's commemorative circulating bimetallic and base-metal five hryvnia series has issued dozens of architectural and cultural subjects since the late 1990s; this Chernihiv piece belongs to that broader ecclesiastical subset.