Pavlo Tychyna Ukraine

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Pavlo Tychyna

Issued into circulation on January 20, 2011.

The commemorative coin is dedicated to the 120th anniversary of birthday of Pavlo Hryhorovych TYCHYNA, a Ukrainian poet, translator, statesman and public figure. Pavlo Tychyna, an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR, a laureate of the USSR State Prize and T.H.Shevchenko State Prize of the UkrSSR, Minister of Education of the UkrSSR (1943-1948), Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the UkrSSR (1953-1959), had multidimensional creative interests: he played a few musical instruments and produced pictures - survived have been his self-portrait and various landscapes designed with a pencil, watercolors, oil, charcoal.

Pavlo Tychyna (Ukrainian: Павло Григорович Тичина; b, 27 January [O.S. 15 January] 1891, Pisky, Kozelets uezd, Chernigov Governorate – d. September 16, 1967, Kiev) was a major Ukrainian poet, interpreter, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman.

Obverse:

Above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine) and lines from a P.Tychyna’s poem written in 1942 (thereunder): «І кричу я: Україно! / Потім стану й прислухаюсь. / Чути... здалеку: - Тримаюсь! / Хмарко! Ластівко! Калино! / І в той бік я повертаюсь.» (“And call I yelling: Ukraine! / Then stop and listen. / It is hearable... from afar: I’m holding out! / Cloudlet! Swallow! Kalyna (Viburnum opulus)! (Help!) / And towards that direction I turn.”); below there is Tychyna’s picture of his parents’ homestead together with the mallow flowers to the left thereof; to the right there is indicated the coin issue year 2011 and, below, the face value П’ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ (five hryvnias).

Reverse:

There is a portrait of Pavlo Tychyna against the background of bookshelves; below there is the conventionalized inscription ПАВЛО ТИЧИНА (Pavlo Tychyna) and his life years 1891-1967.

Package (box, booklet, roll, etc.):

Ukrainian blue box for 0.5 oz silver coins