Ukraine, 1998 AD., 80th Anniversary of Declaration of Independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic commemorative, 2 Hryvni, KM 47.

Ukraine, 80th Anniversary of Declaration of Independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic, commemorative, engravers Anatoliy Kush (obverse) and V.Neverovych (reverse), 1998 AD.,
2 Hryvni (ø 31 mm / 12,88 g), copper-nickel-zinc, 12,8 g. theor. mint weight, mintage 200.000 , axes medal alignment ↑↑ (0°), reeded edge,
Obv.: УКРАЇНСЬКА НАРОДНА РЕСПУБЛІКА // 80 РОКІВ / З ДНЯ ПРОГОЛОШЕННЯ / НЕЗАЛЕЖНОСТІ / 22.01.1918 , ("UKRAINIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC // 80 years / after the approval / INDEPENDENCE / 22.01.1918") depiction of the Pedagogical museum (headquarters of the Ukrainian Central Rada in 1917-1918), figures of two gunner-guards with rifles flanking before.
Rev.: УКРАЇНА / 1998 // 2 / ГРИВНІ , ("UKRAINE / 1998 // 2 / HRYVNIA") national arms and family group: small State Emblem of the Ukraine at center, a child standing above, hold by a worker with a hammer on an anvil to left and a woman with a sickle and sheaf to right, tree behind, date above, value below.
KM 47 .

Year / Mintage
1998 150.000
1998 50.000 (prooflike)

The Ukrainian War of Independence was a period from 1917 to 1921 of sustained warlike conflict between different political and military forces, which resulted in the establishment and development of a Ukrainian republic, later a part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. It comprised a series of military conflicts between Ukrainians who supported different governmental, political and military forces, among them Ukrainian nationalists, anarchists, Bolsheviks, the Central Powers forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary, the White Russian Volunteer Army, and Second Polish Republic forces for control of Ukraine after the February Revolution in the Russian Empire. Also involved were foreign interventionists, in particular France and Romania. The struggle lasted from February 1917 to November 1921 and resulted in the division of Ukraine between the Bolshevik Ukrainian SSR, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. The conflict is frequently viewed within the framework of the Russian Civil War as well as the closing stage of the First World War.

The Tsentralna Rada or Central Rada (Ukrainian: Центральна Рада, Tsentral’na rada) at first was the All-Ukrainian council that united political, public, cultural, professional organizations. Later after the All-Ukrainian National Congress (19–21 April 1917), that council became the revolutionary parliament of Ukraine. From its beginning the council directed the Ukrainian national movement and with its four Universals led the country from autonomy to full sovereignty. During its brief existence from 1917 to 1918, the Central Rada, which was headed by the Ukrainian historian and ethnologist Mykhailo Hrushevsky, evolved into the fundamental governing institution of the Ukrainian People's Republic and set precedents in parliamentary democracy and national independence that were never completely forgotten during Soviet times and are still remembered today.

some data of the Ukrainian People's Republic:

- Republic founded 23 June 1917
- Independence 22 January 1918
- Sack of Kiev 9 February 1918
- Ukrainian State 29 April 1918
- Directorate 13 November 1918
- Soviet invasion 16 January 1919
- Peace of Riga 18 March 1921

Throughout 1919, Ukraine experienced chaos as the armies of the Ukrainian Republic, the Bolsheviks, the Whites, the foreign powers of the Entente, and Poland, as well as anarchist forces such as that of Nestor Makhno tried to prevail. The subsequent Kiev Offensive, staged by the Polish army and allied Ukrainian forces, was unable to change the situation, and in March 1921, the Peace of Riga sealed a shared control of the territory by Poland, the Russian SFSR, and the Ukrainian RSR.
As the result, the lands of Galicia (Halychyna) as well as a large part of the Volhynian territory were incorporated into Poland, while the areas to the east and south became part of Soviet Ukraine.