relief image of the State Emblem of the Russian Federation, above it along the edge – the inscription in a semicircle: "RUSSIAN FEDERATION", framed on both sides with double diamonds, under the coat of arms: on the left – the designations of precious metal and alloy samples, on the right – the content of chemically pure metal and the trademark of the mint, at the bottom in the center in three lines – the inscription: "BANK OF RUSSIA", coin denomination: "2 RUBLES", year of issue: "2022".
relief images of a portrait of N.Y. Danilevsky, an open book and a vine and images of the southern coast of Crimea, a fishing schooner and a lizard made in the technique of laser matting; framed by a relief image of sea foam are the inscription made in relief: "N.Y. DANILEVSKY" and the years of life in two lines: "1822", "1885".
Nikolay Yakovlevich Danilevsky (1822-1885) was a Russian philosopher and biologist, a member of the Russian Geographical Society (1858), a laureate of the highest award of the Russian Geographical Society — the Konstantinovsky Medal (1866). In the 1850s-70s, he participated and led expeditions that investigated the state of fishing in European Russia. Author of the works "Darwinism. Critical Research", "Russia and Europe. A look at the cultural and political relations of the Slavic world to the Germanic-Romance".
The information is provided by the All-Russian public organization "Russian Geographical Society".
Artists: E.V. Kramskaya (obverse), S.V. Sutyagin (reverse).
Sculptors: A.A. Dolgopolova (obverse), A.N. Bessonov (reverse).