The coin is dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of Mykola P.Bazhan (1904 – 1983), a poet, an editor, a specialist in drama study, a film critic, a script writer, a translator, a state and public figure. He was born in the town of Kamjanets-Podilskiy (now Khmelnytsk region).  Mykola P.Bazhan was a man of great learning, a person of encyclopaedic knowledge, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the UkrSSR (1951), an honoured worker of science of the UkrSSR (1966), whose sphere of interest covered almost all fields of cultural life of Ukraine. He was an initiator and scientific supervisor of the "Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia" publication. Though above all, Bazhan went down in history of Ukraine as a poet. His poetry is characterized by sublimity of inflexions, epic sounding, predominance of poetic and civic motives.

In circulation since July 26, 2004.