On the obverse of the coins there is a relief image of the State Emblem of the Russian Federation, there are inscriptions: “RUSSIAN FEDERATION”, “BANK OF RUSSIA”, the denomination of the coins is “2 RUBLES” and the date is “2018”, the metal designation according to the Periodic Table of Elements D.I. . Mendeleev, sample alloy, the trademark of the St. Petersburg Mint and the mass of the precious metal in purity.
On the reverse side of the coin is a relief portrait of A.I. Solzhenitsyn on the background of the image of shelves with books made in laser matting technique, in the lower part of the coin field and to the right of the portrait - an image of a typewriter and a stylized sheet of paper with a facsimile of the writer's signature; to the left of the portrait are the years of the writer's life in two lines: “1918” and “2008”