Description obverse

National Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation. РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ("RUSSIAN FEDERATION") framed on both sides by doubled rhombuses, below under the coat of arms there are indications of the precious metal and its fineness on the left and the fine metal content and the mint trade mark on the right, at the bottom in the centre, in three lines, there is an inscription БАНК РОССИИ ("BANK OF RUSSIA"), the denomination of the coin ‘2 РУБЛЯ’ ("2 RUBLES"), and the year of issue ‘2021 г.’

Description reverse

Portrait of A. Sakharov’s, a relief image of the atom diagramme on the right against a stylised background and, between these two images, a facsimile of the academician’s signature, vertically aligned, and his life years – ‘1921’ and ‘1989’ in two lines.