On the obverse of the coin are placed: the small State Emblem of Ukraine (above), inscriptions: UKRAINE (under the coat of arms); the coin denomination is 5/ HRYVNIA (to the right of the coat of arms); in the center is a symbolic wheel of life, marking the rebirth of nature: a stylized international sign "Radiation Threat", shrouded in leaves, around which animals, populations which develop in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone, has become a kind of reserve for breeding, in particular the black stork, horse, lynx, bison, elk, brown bear; in a circle, on a mirror background, the inscription: CHERNOBYL RADIATION AND ECOLOGICAL BIOSPHERE RESERVE (left), CHORNOBYL RADIATION AND ECOLOGICAL BIOSPHERE RESERVE; the year of minting is 2023 (bottom); the logo of the Banknote and Mint of the National Bank (top).

On the reverse of the coin, a lynx is depicted against the background of a landscape (pad printing is used), above which, on the left, on a mirror background, the inscription: RICE/EURASIAN/EURASIAN LYNX; at the top – lynx and lynx cubs.

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Dedicated to the Eurasian feature. The 30-kilometer exclusion zone and the zone of unconditional resettlement, where the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve has been operating since April 26, 2016, have turned into a kind of reserve for breeding not only typical, but also rare red Book representatives of the animal world. Among such representatives, a species that is not so easy to meet in the wild is the lynx. In the past, the lynx was a predator familiar to the Woodlands. But as a result of the development of forests and the direct persecution of it by man in the XIX century, the lynx became a rare animal. The Eurasian lynx is a species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, annex II of the Berne Convention on the Protection of Wild Flora and Fauna and Natural Habitats in Europe, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.