Atamanchuk Volodymyr

Volodymyr Atamanchuk (born 18 July 1961 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian sculptor, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and a graduate of the Kyiv Art Institute. In 1985-1997 he worked as a sculptor at the Kyiv creative production association Khudozhnyk; since 1997 he has been chief artist-sculptor of the NBU Mint. His early coin works already connected academic sculpture with the technical discipline of minting: the Volodymyr Sosiura model and the designs and plaster models for 80 Years of the Declaration of Ukrainian Unity and 900 Years of the Novhorod-Siverskyi Principality.

In the UA Coins catalog Atamanchuk appears primarily as a sculptor: from portrait and historical issues to contemporary themes such as Ukrainian Cotton, Ornek, Serhii Parajanov, Ivan Marchuk and the Executed Renaissance. Ivan Padalka. His coins are marked by clear relief construction, confident portrait work and an ability to translate a complex graphic sketch into struck form without losing symbolic detail.