The coin commemorates 150 years since the birth of Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Hrushevsky was a historian, a promoter of Ukrainian science, a literary scholar, a sociologist, an essay writer, a writer, a politician, a public figure, and a statesman. Hrushevsky developed the idea of the independent historical development of Ukrainians, arguing that Ukrainians were different from the neighboring peoples both in their origins and political, economic and cultural life. His numerous works on Ukrainian history were translated into Bulgarian, Czech, German, French and English.