Country: Ukraine

Type: Set of coins from the anniversary series "Outstanding Ukrainians"

Mint: Coins were minted at the Luhansk Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine

Year: 1995

Denomination: six coins 50 Kopiyok

Varieties: 1 - Narrow segmented reeding (with 16 grooves in each reeded segment). The edging is narrower below the date;

2 - Narrow segmented reeding (with 16 grooves in each reeded segment). The edging is wider below the date;

3 - Flared segmented reeding (with 16 grooves and flared in each reeded segment). The edging is narrower below the date;

4 - Flared segmented reeding (with 16 grooves and flared in each reeded segment). The edging is wider below the date;

5 - Wide segmented reeding (with 7 grooves in each reeded segment). The edging is narrower below the date;

6 - Wide segmented reeding (with 7 grooves in each reeded segment). The edging is wider below the date

Metal: Brass

Postage Stamps  PPU: Denomination: 50 Shagiv

Chairman of the NBU in 1995: Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko

Ivan Pul'uj (2 February 1845 – 31 January 1918) was an Ukrainian physicist and inventor, who has been championed as an early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging. His contributions were largely neglected until the end of the 20th century.

Ivan Pul'uj graduated with honors from Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna (1869), later also from the Department of Philosophy (1872). In 1876 Pul'uj finished his doctorate on internal friction in gases at the University of Strasbourg under supervision of August Kundt. Pul'uj taught at the Navy academy in Fiume (Rijeka, Croatia) (1874–1876), University of Vienna (1874–1884) and the Imperial-Royal German Technical University in Prague (1884–1916). He served as the rector of the Imperial-Royal German Technical University (German: Kaiserlich-Königlich Deutsche technische Hochschule) in 1888–1889. Pul'uj also worked as a state adviser on electrical engineering for Bohemian and Moravian local governments.

In addition, he completed a translation of the Bible into the Ukrainian language.