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Souvenir note Leonid Kadeniuk - the First Astronaut of Ukraine
| Issuer | National Bank of Ukraine |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette shows the Space Shuttle Columbia against a backdrop of the Solar System planets rendered in deep-space tones. The denominal figure "1" and a secondary shuttle vignette appear to the right. A lengthy bilingual text panel occupies the lower portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | THE FIRST ASTRONAUT OF UKRAINE 1 1997 2020 ПІД ЧАС ПОЛЬОТУ НА БАГАТОРАЗОВОМУ ТРАНСПОРТНОМУ КОСМІЧНОМУ КОРАБЛІ "КОЛУМБІЯ" ЛЕОНІД КАДЕНЮК ВИКОНУВАВ БІОЛОГІЧНІ ЕКСПЕРИМЕНТИ З ТРЬОМА ВИДАМИ РОСЛИН У МЕЖАХ СПІЛЬНОГО УКРАЇНСЬКО-АМЕРИКАНСЬКОГО НАУКВОГО ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ. ОСНОВНА МЕТА ПРОВЕДЕННЯ ЕКСПЕРИМЕНТІВ - ВИВЧЕННЯ ВПЛИВУ СТАНУ НЕВАГОМОСТІ НА ФОТОСИНТЕТИЧНИЙ АПАРАТ РОСЛИН. НЕ Є ПЛАТІЖНИМ ЗАСОБОМ (Translation: DURING THE FLIGHT ON THE REUSABLE TRANSPORT SPACECRAFT "COLUMBIA" LEONID KADENIUK PERFORMED BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS WITH THREE SPECIES OF PLANTS AS PART OF A JOINT UKRAINIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC STUDY. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE EXPERIMENTS IS TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF WEIGHTLESSNESS ON THE PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS OF PLANTS. THIS NOTE IS NOT LEGAL TENDER) |
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Kadeniuk flew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in November 1997 as a payload specialist on STS-87, conducting plant biology experiments — the first Ukrainian citizen to reach orbit under a national flag rather than a Soviet one. This souvenir note was issued by the National Bank of Ukraine in 2020 to mark that distinction officially, though it carries no legal tender status and was never intended for circulation.
The inclusion of SPARK optical variable ink is unusual for a purely commemorative piece — that technology is typically reserved for circulating currency with active counterfeiting risk. Its presence here reflects the Banknote Printing and Minting Works showcasing domestic security printing capability as much as honoring Kadeniuk himself.