There are: the Small Emblem of Ukraine with the inscription УКРАЇНА (Ukraine) under it and the inscriptions НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК (National Bank) (above) and П’ЯТДЕСЯТ ГРИВЕНЬ (Fifty Hryvnias) (below) around the circle; in the circle against the background of Dnieper and the left-bank, the statue of Prince Volodymyr the Great, opened in Kyiv in 1853, is depicted; on the left there is the year of the coin issue 2008 specified on the ribbon.
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
УКРАЇНА
НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК
П’ЯТДЕСЯТ ГРИВЕНЬ
2008
Reverse description
In the circle there is the portrait of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko holding the wreath with a lighted candle, light whereof is imitated by the hologram, and of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I with the inscription НА ЧЕСТЬ ВІЗИТУ В УКРАЇНУ ВСЕЛЕНСЬКОГО ПАТРІАРХА ВАРФОЛОМІЯ І (In Honor of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Visit to Ukraine) around the circle.
Reverse script
Cyrillic
Reverse lettering
НА
ЧЕСТЬ ВІЗИТУ В УКРАЇНУ ВСЕЛЕНСЬКОГО ПАТРІАРХА ВАРФОЛОМІЯ
І
