hryvnia

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1. The currency of Ukraine, symbol ₴, divided into 100 kopiykas.

   Poltava GOK supervisors obtained the highest median monthly incomes at 450 hryven (84.43 EUR/USD), which was 85 hryven above Ukraine’s 2002 subsistence minimum.

   2011, Leontina M. Hormel, “A Case Study of Gender, Class, and Garment Work Reorganization in Ukraine”, in Heike Kahlert, Sabine Schäfer, editors, Engendering Transformation: Post-Socialist Experiences on Work, Politics, and Culture (GENDER Journal for Gender, Culture and Society; Special Issue 1), Leverkusen: Barbara Budrich Publishers, →ISBN, page 21

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   […] Ukrainian postage stamps are to be used in values of 10, 20, 40 hryven of which the total number of 13,005 pieces are prepared for this purpose and surcharged Courier and Field Post, […]

   1920, Scott’s Monthly Journal, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Scott Publications, →OCLC, page 13, column 2

   The liabilities of the Ukraine stand at 122 billion rubles, nearly 90 billion rubles on the accounts of its populace. If this whole sum were exchanged for national currency, then all the chaos which existed in the ruble would continue with the new hryven.

   1991 August 16, Mykhaylo Shvayka, quotee, anonymous translator, “Official on Republic Currency”, in Soviet Union: Republic Affairs (FBIS Report; FBIS-USR-91-023), [McLean, Va.?]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 49, column 2