coin is dedicated to 85th anniversary of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasyl_Sukhomlynsky" class="extiw" title="en:Vasyl Sukhomlynsky">Vasyl Sukhomlynsky</a> (28.09.1918 - 02.09.1970), the innovative Ukrainian pedagogue and teacher. Being the author of numerous scientific works (including "My heart is given to children") and many fiction books for children, he devoted all his life to children. 33 years he worked as a director of Pavliv secondary school in Kirovohrad region, cultivating civil dignity and faith in good essence of a human being and bringing up children to love their native land. On the coin <i>obverse</i> a horizontal composition is depicted based on Sukhomlynskyi's books. The composition  also  contains depiction of children having rest and taking up some school work. Above there is the Small State Emblem of Ukraine (left), inscription УКРАЇНА and the Mint logo of the National Bank of Ukraine; at the lower part of the coin field there is the coin mintage year and its face value - 2 ГРИВНІ.
National Bank of Ukraine issue from the "Outstanding Personalities of Ukraine" series. <i>Artist</i>: Larysa Koren, <i>sculptors</i>: Sviatoslav Ivanenko and Volodymyr Demianenko.
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