The obverse of the coin contains: at the top - the small State Emblem of Ukraine, to the right and left of which are the numbers 20 19, under the emblem the inscription UKRAINE; the denomination below is 2? stylized composition symbolizing the book of translations by Nikolai Lukash - the authors on the left are indicated on the matte background: GOETHE / FLAUBERT / SCHILLER / RILKE HEINE / CERVANTES / BURNS TUWIM / HUGO VERLAINE / BOCCACCIO / MICKIEWICZ, on the right, on the mirror background - HERE / GELEHEL FELO FEL RILKE / CERVANTES / TUVIM BURNS / VERLEN HUGO / BOCCACCIO / MITSKEVICH. The logo of the Banknote and Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine is placed on the right on the mirror background.

The reverse of the coin depicts a portrait of Nikolai Lukash, to the left of which on a mirror background the years of life are indicated in two lines 1919/1988; vertical inscriptions on the right: NIKOLAI / LUKASH.

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Dedicated to the 100th birthday of Nikolai Lukash, one of the greatest translators with phenomenal linguistic talent and amazing erudition, he translated from 18 languages of the world. Nikolai Alekseevich Lukash is a lexicographer, literary critic who was inherent in the search for original Ukrainian vocabulary, which reproduced the masterpieces of world literature with high artistic perfection and left a large and varied heritage.