On the obverse of the coin at the top there is a small State Emblem of Ukraine, under it is the inscription UKRAINE, in the center of the coin is a composition of a pencil, a pen with a Pegasus wing and a brush, inscriptions on the right: 2 / GRIVNY, at the bottom of the year of minting of the coin - 2004 and the Mint logo of the National Bank Ukraine.

On the reverse of the coin, a portrait of Nikolai Bazhan is depicted, the sides of the semicircle contain inscriptions: on the left is NIKOLAY BAZHAN, on the right the years of life are 1904-1,983.

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Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the poet, editor, dramatist, film critic, screenwriter, translator, statesman and public figure - Nikolai Platonovich Bazhan (1904 - 1983), who was born in. Kamenetz-Podolsk (now Khmelnitsky region.). M.P. Bazhan - a man of extremely broad erudition, a true encyclopaedist, academician of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (1951), Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR (1966), whose interests covered almost all spheres of the cultural life of Ukraine. He was the initiator and supervisor of the publication `Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia`. But before Bazhan entered the history of Ukraine as a poet. For his poetry is characterized by a height of intonation, the epic sound, the predominance of patriotic and civil motives. Artist: Boris Grudenko, Nikolay Kochubey Sculptor: Atamanchuk Vladimir, Tchaikovsky Roman