The coin is dedicated to Volodymyr Vernadskyi (12.03.1863–06.01.1945), an outstanding natural scientist and thinker; the founder of such modern sciences about the Earth, as  geochemistry and biochemistry, an academician and the first president of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1919). His ideas played an important role in formation of the present-day scientific picture of the world and his doctrine on   interrelation of the nature and the society influenced  the formation of contemporary ecological perception.
In circulation since March 26, 2003.