On the obverse  of the 5 hryvnia coin there is the Small National Emblem of Ukraine and the circular inscriptions НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine) (above) and П ЯТЬ ГРИВЕНЬ (five  hryvnias) (below), between them there is the year of coin issue 2008 (on the right), as well as the logotype of the National Bank of Ukraine Mint (on the left). In the coin center in the circle of conventionalized rays there is a cross and the semi-circular inscriptions ПРАВОСЛАВ’Я (Orthodoxy) (above) and ІЗ КИЄВА ПО ВСІЙ РУСІ (From Kyiv all over Rus) (below).