Description

75 Years of the Chernivtsi Oblast

The coin is dedicated to the land which combines historical destinies of Northern Bukovina and a part of Bessarabia located in the south west of Ukraine at the foothills of the Carpathians down the Dniester and the Prut Rivers. This region is rich in recreational resources; there is economic potential for the development of interregional and international cooperation. This picturesque part of Ukraine is abundant in places fit for multi-purpose tourism, mass educational rest and recreation: there is a great number of protected areas, numerous historical and cultural monuments and mineral water springs.

Obverse: above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular inscriptions: above – НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine), below – П`ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ (five hryvnias); to the right there is the mark of the Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine; above there is depicted the Three Holy Hierarchs Church, the Residence of Bukovinian Metropolitans against the background of the Khotyn Fortress; in the foreground there is depicted the composition: on the hill, there are sheep and the musician playing the trembita; there are stylized elements below the composition: fragments of the musical notation of the song `Chervona Ruta` (Red Rue), Bukovinian ornamentation and a flower; to the right above the trembita there is the year of issue – 2015.

On the reverse: there is depicted the oblast coat of arms, along the coin circumference there are the legends: above – ЧЕРНІВЕЦЬКА ОБЛАСТЬ (Chernivtsi Oblast), below – ЗАСНОВАНА У 1940 РОЦІ (established in 1940).