Государственный флаг российской федерации как пишется

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Прописная или строчная первая буква в словах «герб», «флаг», «гимн», др.официальных символах, относящихся к конкретному субъекту — краю, городу? Употребление в официальных документах? Например, «герб (или Герб) Красноярского края».
Спасибо.

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

Эти слова пишутся строчными (в т. ч. в официальных документах): герб Красноярского края. Если речь идет о государственном гербе, гимне, флаге России, то с большой буквы пишется только прилагательное (и только в официальных документах): Государственный герб РФ, Государственный гимн РФ, Государственный флаг РФ. 

Как правильно сказать, флаг развевался на здании или над зданием?

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

Оба варианта возможны.

как правильно пишется:развивается флаг, объясните правописание

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

Флаг развЕвается.

Орфографический словарь

развеваться, —ается (к веять)

развиваться, —аюсь, —ается (к развить)

Большой толковый словарь

РАЗВЕВАТЬСЯ,ается; нсв.
Колыхаться, колебаться в воздухе. Развеваются знамёна. Волосы развеваются на ветру.

1. РАЗВИВАТЬСЯ см. 1. Развить.

2. РАЗВИВАТЬСЯ,аюсь, —аешься; нсв.
1.
Протекать, происходить. Действие романа развивается медленно. События развивались стремительно.
3.
Находиться в процессе перехода из одного состояния в другое, более совершенное. Все развивается от низших форм к высшим. Образ божества развивался от животного к человеку. Дружба часто развивается в любовь.

Слова Храм и Государственный пишутся в тексте с заглавных или с прописных букв?

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

Заглавная и прописная буква – это одно и то же (большая буква). Маленькая буква называется строчная.

Слово храм ‘архитектурное сооружение’ пишется со строчной, например: храм Всех Святых, храм Христа Спасителя. Прописная буква – в таком контексте: орден рыцарей Храма.

Слово государственный пишется с прописной буквы, если является первым словом в названии органов власти, учреждений, организаций, научных, учебных, зрелищных заведений; наград, символов и т. п, например: Государственная Дума, Государственная Третьяковская галерея, Государственный фонд кинофильмов РФ, Государственный институт русского языка им. А. С. Пушкина, Государственный флаг РФ (в офиц. текстах), Государственная премия. В остальных случаях правильно написание со строчной, например: Единый государственный экзамен, Московский государственный лингвистический университет, государственное унитарное предприятие, органы государственной власти.

Закон «О Государственном Флаге Украины»,и «О Государственном Гимне Украины». Почему флаг со строчной, а Гимн с прописной?

Ответ справочной службы русского языка

В наименованиях _Государственный флаг РФ_ и _Государственный гимн РФ_ корректно написание со строчной.

Как правильно: государственный или Государственный флаг РФ?

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Администрация города Екатеринбурга в рамках проекта «Екатеринбург говорит правильно» обращается к вопросу о корректном написании сочетания «Г(г)осударственный флаг».

Специалисты справочно-информационного портала «Русский язык» указывают, что если речь идет о государственном гербе, гимне, флаге России, то с большой буквы пишется только прилагательное (и только в официальных документах): Государственный герб РФ, Государственный гимн РФ, Государственный флаг РФ.

Таким образом, правильно: День Государственного флага России ежегодно отмечается 22 августа.

22 августа 1991 года над Белым домом в Москве впервые был официально поднят трехцветный российский флаг, заменивший в качестве государственного символа красное полотнище с серпом и молотом. В этот день на Чрезвычайной сессии Верховного Совета РСФСР было принято постановление считать «полотнище из… белой, лазоревой, алой полос» официальным национальным флагом России.

Сегодня флаг России — «государственный триколор» — официальный государственный символ страны, наряду с гербом и гимном. Государственный флаг Российской Федерации представляет собой прямоугольное полотнище из трех равновеликих горизонтальных полос: верхней — белого, средней — синего и нижней — красного цвета. Отношение длины флага к его ширине 2:3.

Российский флаг родился вместе с первыми российскими военными кораблями и до XIX века оставался принадлежностью главным образом флотской культуры. Начало применения российского бело-сине-красного флага на суше связано с географическими открытиями русских мореплавателей.

До XIX века русские моряки водружали на берегу присоединенной земли памятный крест. Но в 1806 году появилась новая традиция. Русская экспедиция обследовала побережье Южного Сахалина и подняла на берегу два флага. Андреевский флаг отмечал заслугу военного флота, государственный бело-сине-красный флаг — новое владение России.

Распространение государственного бело-сине-красного флага было заторможено в 1858 году, когда Гербовое отделение Департамента герольдии Правительствующего Сената выступило с инициативой изменения российского государственного флага.

В течение почти полутора столетий флаг нашей страны многократно изменялся. В ноябре 1990 года правительственная комиссия по разработке новой государственной символики решила проблему флага быстро и почти без разногласий: Россия имела бело-сине-красный флаг с более чем 300-летней историей, и этот флаг должен был вернуться, передает kremlin.ru.

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Как писать «государственный флаг РФ», какие слова с заглавной буквы?

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Только название страны, даже если это аббревиатура пишется с заглавной буквы. И если слово «государственный» является первым предложении, то и его нужно писать с заглавной или как это пишется в учениках прописной буквы.



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Герб, флаг и гимн — это официальные символы страны и поэтому имеют официальные названия, которые, с точки зрения грамматики, являются составными именами собственными.

Государственный флаг Российской Федерации: с прописной буквы пишется первое слово названия и входящее имя собственное «Российской Федерации».

Другие варианты названия: Государственный флаг РФ, Флаг России.



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Символы государства флаг и герб защищены законом, символы государства пишутся с заглавной буквы, поэтому с заглавной буквы пишется слово «Государственный», а слово «флаг» пишется с маленькой. Название государства пишется с заглавной буквы, правильно пишется

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Flag of Russia.svg
Триколор
(Trikolor; Tricolour)
Use Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Vertical hoist method of flag is unknown
Proportion 2:3
Adopted

1696–1923

  • 1696; 326 years ago
    (for vessels)
    1883; 139 years ago
    (for land use)
    1896; 126 years ago
    (national flag)

1991–present

  • 22 August 1991; 30 years ago
    (de facto restored)
    1 November 1991; 30 years ago
    (de jure restored)
    11 December 1993; 28 years ago
    (current design)
    25 December 2000; 21 years ago
    (legalised)
Design A horizontal tricolour of white, dark blue and red
Designed by Peter the Great
Naval ensign of Russia.svg

Variant flag of Russia

Use Naval ensign Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag
Proportion 2:3
Adopted 1712–1923
1992–present
Design St. Andrew’s Cross with a white background and two blue diagonal bands forming a saltire.

The national flag of Russia (Russian: Флаг России, romanized: Flag Rossii), also known as the State Flag of the Russian Federation (Russian: Государственный флаг Российской Федерации, romanized: Gosudarstvenny flag Rossiyskoy Federatsii), is a tricolour flag consisting of three equal horizontal fields: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. The flag was first used as an ensign for Russian merchant ships in 1696.

It remained in use until 1858, when the first official flag of the Russian Empire was decreed by Alexander II, which was a tricolour consisting of three horizontal fields: black on the top, yellow in the middle, and white on the bottom. A decree in 1896 reinstated the white, blue, and red tricolour as the official flag of the Russian Empire until the Revolution of 1917.

Following the creation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic after the Bolshevik Revolution, the Russian tricolour was abolished, but its usage was preserved by the White Movement and the Russian state during the Russian Civil War. During the Soviet Union’s existence, the country used the red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a golden bordered red star on top while the Russian SFSR (a constituent republic of the USSR) used a defaced variant with a vertical blue bar at the hoist.

During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after the 1991 August Coup, the Russian SFSR adopted a new flag design similar to the pre-revolutionary tricolour that had been abolished in 1917. The ratio of the new flag was 1:2, and the flag colours consisted of white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. When Boris Yeltsin made the State Heraldic Register, he gave the flag the number 1 there. The flag design remained the same until 1993, when the original Russian tricolour was fully restored as the current flag after the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.[citation needed] The current flag is listed at number 2 in the SHR.

Origin[edit]

Two accounts of the flag’s origin connect it to the tricolour used by the Dutch Republic (the flag of the Netherlands).[1][2]

The earliest mention of the flag occurs during the reign of Alexis I, in 1668, and is related to the construction of the first Russian naval ship, the frigate Oryol. According to one source, the ship’s Dutch lead engineer Butler faced the need for the flag, and issued a request to the Boyar Duma, to «ask His Royal Majesty as to which (as is the custom among other nations) flag shall be raised on the ship». The official response merely indicated that, as such issue is as yet unprecedented, even though the land forces do use (apparently different) flags, the tsar ordered that his (Butler’s) opinion be sought about the matter, asking specifically as to the custom existing in his country.[3]

A different account traces the origins of the Russian flag to tsar Peter the Great’s visits to Arkhangelsk in 1693 and 1694. Peter was keenly interested in shipbuilding in the European style, different from the barges ordinarily used in Russia at the time. In 1693, Peter had ordered a Dutch-built frigate from Amsterdam. In 1694 when it arrived, the Dutch red, white, and blue banner flew from its stern.[4] Peter decided to model Russia’s naval flag after that banner by assigning meaning and reordering the colours.

The Dutch flag book of 1695 by Carel Allard,[5] printed only a year after Peter’s trip to Western Europe, describes the tricolour with a double-headed eagle bearing a shield on its breast and wearing a golden crown over both of its heads.

History[edit]

  • Flag sketches made by Peter the Great, 1699

  • National flags of Russia before and after 1896

    National flags of Russia
    before and after 1896

  • Magazine cover of white émigré, 1932

  • President Boris Yeltsin waving the flag during the August Coup, 1991

A study on clarifying the national colours of Russia based on disquisition on documents of the Moscow Archive of Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire was summarized by Dmitry Samokvasov, a Russian archaeologist and legal historian, in an edition of 16 pages called «On the Question of National Colours of Ancient Russia» published in Moscow in 1910.[6]

1552–1918: Tsardom, Empire and Republic[edit]

Banner of the «Most Gracious Saviour» under Ivan the Terrible

In 1552, Russian regiments marched on the victorious assault of Kazan under Ivan the Terrible with the banner of the Most Gracious Saviour. For the next century and a half, the banner of Ivan the Terrible accompanied the Russian army. Under Tsarina Sophia Alekseevna, it visited the Crimean campaigns, and under Peter the Great, the Azov campaigns and the Russo-Swedish War.

In the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible, there is an image of the banner of Ivan the Terrible in the Kazan campaign – a bifurcated white one with the image of the Saviour and an eight-pointed cross above it. According to other sources, the banner was red instead of white. A copy of this banner, which has been restored many times, is still kept in the Kremlin Armoury.

In 1612, the Nizhny Novgorod militia raised the banner of Dmitry Pozharsky, it was crimson in colour with the image of the Lord Almighty on one side and the archangel Michael on the other.

The armorial banner of Peter the Great, 1696

In 1669, the Polish painters Stanislav Loputsky and Ivan Mirovsky invited by Tsar Alexis of Russia, painted for the tsar’s palace in Kolomenskoye «the hallmarks (that is, the emblems) of the sovereigns and all the universal states of this world.» Then Loputsky drew «on the canvas, the coat of arms of the Moscow State and the arms of other neighbouring countries, under every emblem of the planet under which they are.» The coat of arms was a white rectangular banner with a «slope» and a wide red border, in the centre of which was depicted a gold two-headed eagle and the emblems symbolizing the subject kingdoms, principalities and lands. In the inventory of the Kremlin Armoury, the coat of arms is described as the following: «In the circle there is a two-headed eagle wearing two crowns, and in his chest, the king on horseback pricks a serpent with his spear».[7]

On 6 August 1693, during Peter the Great’s sailing in the White Sea with a detachment of warships built in Arkhangelsk, the so-called «Flag of the Tsar of Muscovy»[8] was raised for the first time on the 12-gun yacht «Saint Peter». The flag was a cross-stitch of 4.6×4.9 meters sewn from cloth, composed of three equal-sized horizontal stripes of white, blue and red, with a golden double-headed eagle in the middle.[9] The original of this oldest surviving Russian flag is located in the Central Naval Museum in Saint Petersburg.

A 1695 flag book[10] by Carel Allard describes three flags used by the tsar of Muscovy: the tricolour[11] with the double-headed eagle bearing a shield on its breast and wearing a golden crown over both of its heads, the same tricolour[12] with a blue saltire over it, and a cross flag[13] showing red and white quartering with a blue cross over all.[14] The cross flag is depicted upon the Construction of Kronschloss Medal,[15] which commemorates the construction of Fort Kronschlot (Kronschloss) in Kronstadt by Peter the Great in 1704, the colours of the flag being determined according to the hatchings engraved.

The armorial banner of Peter the Great was created in 1696. Made from red taffeta with a white border, the flag depicted a golden eagle hovering over the sea. On the chest of the eagle in the circle is the Saviour, next to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The banner was likely made for the second Azov campaign.[16]

Taking the fortress of Azov. 1696 by Adrian Shkhonebek

In 1693, Franz Timmerman received the order to build merchant ships in Arkhangelsk and trade with Europe. He was told to display the two-headed eagle spread with wings, with three crowns over it. On the chest of the eagle, a warrior on horseback was to be displayed with a spear, in a military harness. The same eagle was also to hold a sceptre with the right leg and an apple with a crest with the left. The same instructions were given to other traders.[17]

Russian flag (lower right) on the Practice battle on the river IJ in honour of Peter I, September 1697. Painting by Abraham Storck, 1700

According to Dutch newspapers, in June 1694, a 44-gun frigate bought by Russia and built in Rotterdam stood in the Amsterdam roadstead under the white-blue-red flag.[18]

In 1696, at the mouth of the river Don, a Russian flotilla of armed rowboats blocked the supply of the Ottoman fortress of Azov. On the 1700 engraving by Adrian Shkhonebek, Taking the fortress of Azov. 1696, depicts the ships carrying rectangular panels on the flagpoles, the heraldic shading of which shows that some of the flags are blue with a straight red cross, and the rest are white with a straight red cross. A number of researchers doubt the accuracy of Shkonebek’s engraving because he was not a witness to the events.[19]

Images of various white-blue-red Russian flags are present in the three later paintings of Abraham Storck’s workshop dedicated to the arrival in Amsterdam of Peter I. Peter I took part in a practice battle on the river IJ while on board the yacht of the Dutch East India Company.[20] In the paintings of Abraham Stork depicting the show fight, this yacht sails under the white-blue-red flag with a double-headed eagle, or under a white-red-blue pennant and a white-red-blue aft flag with a double-headed eagle.

In October 1699, Peter I, on the back of the sheet with instructions sent to the Russian envoy Yemelyan Ukraintsev in Istanbul, drew a sketch of a three-band white-blue-red flag.[21]

In December 1699, the Austrian ambassador Anton Paleyer gave a list of weapons and flags seen on the vessels of the Azov Flotilla in a letter. He described seeing three small flags of white-red-blue colours and two regimental colours of red and white mixed in with other colours.[22]

In April 1700, Peter I ordered the Kremlin Armoury to build white-red-violet sea banners.[23] The design and dimensions of these banners correspond to the figure and the size of the regimental banner kept among the other 352 trophy Russian banners in the burial vault of Swedish kings – the Riddarholm Church in Stockholm.[24]

The three-band white-blue-red flag, as well as the flag with a red Jerusalem cross, were also used on warships up to 1720 as signals.[25]

  • Practice battle on the river IJ in honor of Peter I, Abraham Storck, Amsterdam Museum[26]

    Practice battle on the river IJ in honor of Peter I, Abraham Storck, Amsterdam Museum[26]

  • Flag with a Jerusalem Cross, 1693

    Flag with a Jerusalem Cross, 1693

  • White-red-violet banners ordered by Peter I and captured by Swedes during the Battle of Narva in 1700

    White-red-violet banners ordered by Peter I and captured by Swedes during the Battle of Narva in 1700

  • Philipp Heinrich Müller, Construction of Kronschloss Medal, 1704

    Philipp Heinrich Müller, Construction of Kronschloss Medal, 1704

  • Black-and-white sketch of the flag, 1885

    Black-and-white sketch of the flag, 1885

  • Order by Tsar Alexander II on the official flag of the Russian Empire

    Order by Tsar Alexander II on the official flag of the Russian Empire

Russian flag during WWI on a postcard (1914–1917)[a]

The Russian tricolour flag was adopted as a merchant flag at rivers in 1705. These colours of the flag of Russia would later inspire the choice of the «Pan-Slavic colours» by the Prague Slavic Congress, 1848. Two other Slavic countries, Slovakia and Slovenia, have flags similar to the Russian one, but with added coats-of-arms for differentiation. On 7 May 1883, the Russian flag was authorized to be used on land, and it became an official National flag before the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II in 1896.

The flag continued to be used by the Russian Provisional Government after the Tsar was toppled in the February Revolution and was not replaced until the October Revolution which established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.

1918–1991: Civil War and Soviet Union[edit]

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918–1937)

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Russian SFSR (1937–1954)

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Russian SFSR (1954–1991)

On 8 April 1918, the flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was discussed at a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR. The Council proposed that the All-Russian Central Executive Committee create a red flag with the abbreviation for the phrase Workers of the world, unite! However, the proposal was not adopted. On 13 April 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee established the RSFSR flag to be a red banner with the inscription Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. The text of the decree did not contain any clarification regarding the colour, size and location of the inscription, or the width and length ratio of the cloth.

On 17 June 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee approved a sample image of the flag of the RSFSR, developed on behalf of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR by the graphic artist Sergey Chekhonin. The flag was a red rectangular panel, in the upper corner of which was placed the inscription RSFSR in gold letters stylized as Slavic. This inscription was separated from the rest of the cloth on both sides by gold stripes forming a rectangle.

On 30 December 1922, the RSFSR combined with the Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, and Transcaucasian SFSR to form the Soviet Union. The national flag of the USSR was established on 18 April 1924, described in the Constitution of the USSR as a red or scarlet rectangular cloth with a 1:2 width to length ratio, with a gold sickle and hammer in the top corner next to the flagpole and a red five-pointed star framed with a golden border. This flag was carried by all ships of the USSR and diplomatic representations of the USSR. The 1:2 red flag was used, until replaced in 1954 with the universal design of the Soviet flag with a blue stripe along the mast.

Contrary to the belief that the USSR state flag outranked the flag of the RSFSR, the actual use of the USSR flag was limited. The USSR flag in Russia flew only over two buildings, that of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and the Council of People’s Commissars. That decision was adopted on 23 March 1925, also establishing that the flag of the RSFSR had to be raised constantly not only on the buildings of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars but also on the buildings of all local soviets, including village soviets and district soviets in cities. On holidays, the RSFSR flag had to be raised on many public buildings (such as schools, hospitals, and government offices).[27]

During the Second World War, the white-blue-red tricolour was used by Nazi collaborators, most of whom were from groups targeted by the repressions of the Stalin era, including anti-communist Christians and the remnants of the Kulaks, who generally regarded the Nazi invasion as a liberation of Russia from communism to preserve White Christendom. Thus, in the war, the troops known as the Russian Liberation Army, led by Andrey Vlasov, who was allied with Germany against the Soviet Union, flew the tricolour flag, as well as the St Andrew’s Flag, as they fought against the Soviet Army.[28][29]

On 20 January 1947, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR found it necessary to amend the national flags of the allied republics so that the flags reflected the idea of a Soviet Union state as well as the unique national identities of the republics. On each of the flags was placed the emblem of the USSR, a sickle and a hammer with a red five-pointed star, with the inclusion of national ornaments and new colours.[30] The new RSFSR flag was established in January 1954: a red rectangular panel with a light blue strip near the pole running the full width of the flag. In the upper left corner of the red canvas were depicted a golden sickle and a hammer and above them a red five-pointed star framed with a golden border. By the Law of the RSFSR of 2 June 1954, this flag was approved and the description of the flag was included in Article 149 of the Constitution of the RSFSR.[31]

1991–present: Russian Federation[edit]

During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after the 1991 August Coup, the Russian SFSR adopted a new flag design similar to the pre-revolutionary tricolour that had been abolished in 1917. The ratio of the new flag was 1:2, and the flag colours consisted of white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. The flag design remained the same until 1993, when the original Russian tricolour was fully restored as the current flag after the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.[citation needed] Following the events of the attempted coup in Moscow, the supreme soviet of the Russian SFSR declared, by resolution dated 22 August 1991,[32] that the old imperial tricolour flag serve as the national flag of the state. The constitution was subsequently amended by Law No. 1827-1 1 November 1991.[33] At the disintegration of the USSR on 25 December 1991, the Soviet flag was lowered from Kremlin and then replaced by the tricolour flag.

The modern era flag underwent a proportion change from 1:2 to 2:3 in 1993 and has been most recently provided for by a 2000 law.[34] On 11 December 1993, President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin signed Decree No. 2126 «On the State Flag of the Russian Federation».[35] In Article 1 of the decree, the flag was described as a «rectangular panel of three equal horizontal stripes: the top – white, middle – blue, and bottom – red, with a width to length ratio of 2:3.»

The National Flag Day is an official holiday in Russia, established in 1994. It is celebrated on 22 August, the day of the victory over putschists in 1991, but employees remain at work.

Symbolism[edit]

At the times of Alexander III of Russia the official interpretation was as follows: the white color symbolizes nobility and frankness; the blue for faithfulness, honesty, impeccability, and chastity; and the red for courage, generosity, and love. A common unofficial interpretation was: Red: Great Russia, White: White Russia, Blue: Little Russia.[36]

Regulations[edit]

When the Russian flag and the flags of the Russian federal subjects are flown at the same time, the national flag should be:

  • on the left if two flags are raised
  • in the middle if the number of flags is odd
  • and to the left of the centre if the number is even

The flag cannot be smaller, or lower than a regional flag.[37]

Colour specifications[edit]

Specifications for the flag of Russia

Federal constitutional law of the Russian Federation only says that the colours of the flag are «white», «blue» (синий, or dark blue, as Russian has two colours that are called «blue» in English), and «red». The Federal Constitutional Law on the State Flag of the Russian Federation does not actually specify which shades the colours should be. Russian government agencies when ordering the manufacture of cloth for the flag indicate the following Pantone colours: white, blue (Pantone 286C), and red (Pantone 485C).[38][39][40]

Scheme White Blue Red
RAL 9016 5005 3028
Pantone White 286 C 485 C
RGB 255–255–255 0–50–160[41] 218–41–28[42]
CMYK 0–0–0–0 100–80–0–12[41] 0–95–100–00[42]
HTML #FFFFFF #0032A0 #DA291C

Colour specifications for different colour shades[edit]

Scheme White Blue Red
Pantone White 280 C 180 C
RGB 255–255–255 1–20–122 195–52–36
CMYK 0–0–0–0 99–84–0–52 0–73–82–24
HTML #FFFFFF #01147A #C33424

The album of national flags, published by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Russian Navy, gives the following shades of colours of the flag of Russia in Pantone:[43]

Scheme White Blue Red
Pantone White 293C 485C

The colours following are for the old, Post-Soviet flag of Russia:

Flag of Russia (1991–1993).svg
Colors scheme
White Azure Scarlet
RAL 9016 5012 3020
CMYK 0-0-0-0 100-39-0-9 0-94-85-14
HEX #FFFFFF #018DE9 #DB0D20
RGB 255-255-255 1-141-233 219-13-32

Variant versions[edit]

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Tsar, c.17th century

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Presidential standard

A variant of the flag was authorized for private use by Tsar Nicholas II before World War I, adding the large state eagle on a yellow field (imperial standard) in the canton. It has never been used as the official state flag. Likewise, today some Russian people may use another variant of the flag defaced with the double-headed eagle from the coat of arms in the middle and the golden word РОССИЯ at the bottom.[44]

After the October Revolution of 1917, the tricolour design was banned, and a definitive new flag of the RSFSR (one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union) was introduced in 1954 (see flag of Russian SFSR), and this remained the republic’s flag until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. All of the Soviet Republics’ flags were created by introducing a small but noticeable change to the flag of the Soviet Union. For Russia, the change was an introduction of the left-hand blue band. The previous Soviet design was different, a plain red flag with different variants of the «RSFSR» abbreviation in the canton. Today, the Soviet flag is used by the supporters and members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

The tricolour was used by the anticommunist forces during the Civil War called the White movement. It was continued to be used by White émigrés in various countries as the Russian flag. The tricolour was associated both in Soviet Russia as well as the Russian White emigre communities as symbolizing a traditional tsarist Orthodox Russia. It, as well as the naval ensign of the Imperial Russian Navy was used by anticommunist Russian troops under German command during the Second World War. Both flags can be seen inside a few Orthodox churches in the West established by the Russian communities. In the Soviet Union, this flag was used in films set in the prerevolutionary period and was seen as a historical flag, especially after the 1940s.

It, rather than the black-yellow-white colour combination, was readopted by Russia on 22 August 1991. That date is celebrated yearly as the national flag day.[citation needed]

The President of Russia uses a Presidential Standard (Russian: Штандарт Президента), which was introduced via Presidential Decree No.319 on 15 February 1994, it is officially defined as the square tricolour with the coat of arms (in this case the double-headed eagle is depicted without the shield) in the middle.[45][46]

Unicode[edit]

The Flag of Russia is represented as the Unicode emoji sequence U+1F1F7 🇷 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER R and U+1F1FA 🇺 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER U, making «🇷🇺».[47]

See also[edit]

  • Coat of arms of Moscow
  • Coat of arms of Russia
  • Flags of the federal subjects of Russia
  • List of Russian flags
  • Flag of the Russian-American Company
  • Pan-Slavic colours
  • Flag of Dagestan (nearly identical design, green stripe instead of white)
  • Flag of the Donetsk People’s Republic (nearly identical design, black stripe instead of white)
  • Flag of Colombia (nearly identical design, yellow stripe instead of white)
  • Flag of the Luhansk People’s Republic (nearly identical design, turquoise stripe instead of white)
  • Flag of Slovakia (nearly identical design, defaced with the coat of arms at the hoist side)
  • Flag of Slovenia (nearly identical design, defaced with the coat of arms at the hoist side)
  • Flag of Transnistria
  • White-blue-white flag (variant used by anti-war protesters against the invasion of Ukraine)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Introduced in 1914 as a flag «for private use» to support patriotism during the war. Plans to formally adopt this design after the war were abolished after the fall of the monarchy.

References[edit]

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  20. ^ Uiterst links een jacht met de Russische vlag en tsaar Peter de Grote aan boord, gekleed in het rood (Слева – яхта под флагом России с царём Петром I на борту, одетым в красное). Het Spiegelgevecht op het IJ ter ere van het Moskovisch gezantschap (1 September 1697), 1697–1700
  21. ^ Устрялов Н. Г. История царствования Петра Великого. Т. IV. — СПб., 1863. Карты, планы и схемы. — С. 15 (копия листа с приложения No. 14)
  22. ^ Елагин С. И. История русского флота. Период Азовский. Приложения. Ч. 1. — СПб., 1864 – С. 428–429
  23. ^ Яковлев Л.П. (1865). Древности Российскаго государства, изданныя по высочайшему повелению. Доп. к 3 отд-нию: Русския старинныя знамена. М. p. 110.
  24. ^ П. И. Белавенец. Краткая записка о старых русских знамёнах. — СПб, 1911. С.33
  25. ^ Оленин Р. М., Карманов В. В. От первого корабля до первого Устава. История морских флагов России (1669–1725 гг.). — СПб.: «Шатон», 2006. — С. 207
  26. ^ Het Spiegelgevecht op het IJ ter ere van het Moskovisch gezantschap (1 September 1697), 1697–1700
  27. ^ Собрание узаконений и распоряжений правительства РСФСР. — 1925, No. 20, цит. по: Вексиллологический справочник по флагам Российской Империи и СССР, Т.1/сост. Соколов В. А. — М.: МГИУ, 2002, ISBN 5-276-00240-1, СС.487–488
  28. ^ Lilia Shevtsova: Putin’s Russia. Carnegie Endowment, 2010. p. 114
  29. ^ Kathleen E. Smith: Mythmaking in the New Russia: Politics and Memory During the Yeltsin Era. Cornell University Press, 2002. p. 160
  30. ^ Центральный Государственный архив Киргизской ССР, ф.1445, оп.3, д.29, л.2, цит. по: Вексиллологический справочник по флагам Российской Империи и СССР, Т.1/сост. Соколов В. А. — М.: МГИУ, 2002, ISBN 5-276-00240-1, СС.399–400
  31. ^ Закон РСФСР от 2 июня 1954 г. «О Государственном флаге РСФСР»
  32. ^ per Resolution No. 1627/1-I of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 22 August 1991
  33. ^ per Law No. 1827-1 of the RSFSR of 1 November 1991
  34. ^ per Decree No. 2126 of 11 December 1993
  35. ^ О Государственном флаге Российской Федерации : Указ Президента РФ от 11 December 1993 No. 2126 // Собрание актов Президента и Правительства Российской Федерации. 1993. No. 51. Ст. 4928.
  36. ^ Государственный флаг России. Статья на сайте Политического консультативного центра
  37. ^ «State Insignia». State Insignia. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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  39. ^ Управление делами Президента России. «Госзаказ на изготовление и поставку штандартов Президента. Технические требования». Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  40. ^ Министерство обороны Российской Федерации. «Приложение № 2 к тендеру от 12 марта 2010 года. Техническое задание на изготовление Комплекта флагов, копий исторических знамён и штандартов фронтов, а также элементов знамённого (флажного) комплекса для проведения парада, посвящённого празднованию 65-летия Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг». Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
  41. ^ a b Pantone 286 C
  42. ^ a b Pantone 485 C
  43. ^ Service Hydrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine (2010) [Album des pavillons : pavillons et marques distinctives]. Альбом национальных флагов (Edition 2000 — Correction n°5 — 2010 ed.). Marselle, France: Librairie Maritime Outremer. Archived from the original on 21 April 2012.
  44. ^ Unofficial flag of Russia at Flags of the World
  45. ^ per Decree No. 319 of 15 February 1994
  46. ^ Flag of the president of Russia at Flags of the World
  47. ^ «🇷🇺 Flag for Russia Emoji». Retrieved 2 January 2018.

External links[edit]

  • Official image of the Russian flag, on the official site of the Russian President
  • Federal Constitutional Law of 25 December 2000 No. 1-FKZ «On the State Flag of the Russian Federation» (including amendments). pravo.gov.ru (in Russian)
  • Timeline Russian National Flag (in Italian)
  • Flag of Russia – old link (in Russian)
  • Flag of Russia – Vexillographia (in Russian)
  • Flag of Russia (in Russian)
  • National Flag and Naval Ensign in Russia Navy (in Russian)
Russian Federation

Flag of Russia.svg
Триколор
(Trikolor; Tricolour)
Use Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Vertical hoist method of flag is unknown
Proportion 2:3
Adopted

1696–1923

  • 1696; 326 years ago
    (for vessels)
    1883; 139 years ago
    (for land use)
    1896; 126 years ago
    (national flag)

1991–present

  • 22 August 1991; 30 years ago
    (de facto restored)
    1 November 1991; 30 years ago
    (de jure restored)
    11 December 1993; 28 years ago
    (current design)
    25 December 2000; 21 years ago
    (legalised)
Design A horizontal tricolour of white, dark blue and red
Designed by Peter the Great
Naval ensign of Russia.svg

Variant flag of Russia

Use Naval ensign Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag
Proportion 2:3
Adopted 1712–1923
1992–present
Design St. Andrew’s Cross with a white background and two blue diagonal bands forming a saltire.

The national flag of Russia (Russian: Флаг России, romanized: Flag Rossii), also known as the State Flag of the Russian Federation (Russian: Государственный флаг Российской Федерации, romanized: Gosudarstvenny flag Rossiyskoy Federatsii), is a tricolour flag consisting of three equal horizontal fields: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. The flag was first used as an ensign for Russian merchant ships in 1696.

It remained in use until 1858, when the first official flag of the Russian Empire was decreed by Alexander II, which was a tricolour consisting of three horizontal fields: black on the top, yellow in the middle, and white on the bottom. A decree in 1896 reinstated the white, blue, and red tricolour as the official flag of the Russian Empire until the Revolution of 1917.

Following the creation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic after the Bolshevik Revolution, the Russian tricolour was abolished, but its usage was preserved by the White Movement and the Russian state during the Russian Civil War. During the Soviet Union’s existence, the country used the red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a golden bordered red star on top while the Russian SFSR (a constituent republic of the USSR) used a defaced variant with a vertical blue bar at the hoist.

During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after the 1991 August Coup, the Russian SFSR adopted a new flag design similar to the pre-revolutionary tricolour that had been abolished in 1917. The ratio of the new flag was 1:2, and the flag colours consisted of white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. When Boris Yeltsin made the State Heraldic Register, he gave the flag the number 1 there. The flag design remained the same until 1993, when the original Russian tricolour was fully restored as the current flag after the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.[citation needed] The current flag is listed at number 2 in the SHR.

Origin[edit]

Two accounts of the flag’s origin connect it to the tricolour used by the Dutch Republic (the flag of the Netherlands).[1][2]

The earliest mention of the flag occurs during the reign of Alexis I, in 1668, and is related to the construction of the first Russian naval ship, the frigate Oryol. According to one source, the ship’s Dutch lead engineer Butler faced the need for the flag, and issued a request to the Boyar Duma, to «ask His Royal Majesty as to which (as is the custom among other nations) flag shall be raised on the ship». The official response merely indicated that, as such issue is as yet unprecedented, even though the land forces do use (apparently different) flags, the tsar ordered that his (Butler’s) opinion be sought about the matter, asking specifically as to the custom existing in his country.[3]

A different account traces the origins of the Russian flag to tsar Peter the Great’s visits to Arkhangelsk in 1693 and 1694. Peter was keenly interested in shipbuilding in the European style, different from the barges ordinarily used in Russia at the time. In 1693, Peter had ordered a Dutch-built frigate from Amsterdam. In 1694 when it arrived, the Dutch red, white, and blue banner flew from its stern.[4] Peter decided to model Russia’s naval flag after that banner by assigning meaning and reordering the colours.

The Dutch flag book of 1695 by Carel Allard,[5] printed only a year after Peter’s trip to Western Europe, describes the tricolour with a double-headed eagle bearing a shield on its breast and wearing a golden crown over both of its heads.

History[edit]

  • Flag sketches made by Peter the Great, 1699

  • National flags of Russia before and after 1896

    National flags of Russia
    before and after 1896

  • Magazine cover of white émigré, 1932

  • President Boris Yeltsin waving the flag during the August Coup, 1991

A study on clarifying the national colours of Russia based on disquisition on documents of the Moscow Archive of Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire was summarized by Dmitry Samokvasov, a Russian archaeologist and legal historian, in an edition of 16 pages called «On the Question of National Colours of Ancient Russia» published in Moscow in 1910.[6]

1552–1918: Tsardom, Empire and Republic[edit]

Banner of the «Most Gracious Saviour» under Ivan the Terrible

In 1552, Russian regiments marched on the victorious assault of Kazan under Ivan the Terrible with the banner of the Most Gracious Saviour. For the next century and a half, the banner of Ivan the Terrible accompanied the Russian army. Under Tsarina Sophia Alekseevna, it visited the Crimean campaigns, and under Peter the Great, the Azov campaigns and the Russo-Swedish War.

In the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible, there is an image of the banner of Ivan the Terrible in the Kazan campaign – a bifurcated white one with the image of the Saviour and an eight-pointed cross above it. According to other sources, the banner was red instead of white. A copy of this banner, which has been restored many times, is still kept in the Kremlin Armoury.

In 1612, the Nizhny Novgorod militia raised the banner of Dmitry Pozharsky, it was crimson in colour with the image of the Lord Almighty on one side and the archangel Michael on the other.

The armorial banner of Peter the Great, 1696

In 1669, the Polish painters Stanislav Loputsky and Ivan Mirovsky invited by Tsar Alexis of Russia, painted for the tsar’s palace in Kolomenskoye «the hallmarks (that is, the emblems) of the sovereigns and all the universal states of this world.» Then Loputsky drew «on the canvas, the coat of arms of the Moscow State and the arms of other neighbouring countries, under every emblem of the planet under which they are.» The coat of arms was a white rectangular banner with a «slope» and a wide red border, in the centre of which was depicted a gold two-headed eagle and the emblems symbolizing the subject kingdoms, principalities and lands. In the inventory of the Kremlin Armoury, the coat of arms is described as the following: «In the circle there is a two-headed eagle wearing two crowns, and in his chest, the king on horseback pricks a serpent with his spear».[7]

On 6 August 1693, during Peter the Great’s sailing in the White Sea with a detachment of warships built in Arkhangelsk, the so-called «Flag of the Tsar of Muscovy»[8] was raised for the first time on the 12-gun yacht «Saint Peter». The flag was a cross-stitch of 4.6×4.9 meters sewn from cloth, composed of three equal-sized horizontal stripes of white, blue and red, with a golden double-headed eagle in the middle.[9] The original of this oldest surviving Russian flag is located in the Central Naval Museum in Saint Petersburg.

A 1695 flag book[10] by Carel Allard describes three flags used by the tsar of Muscovy: the tricolour[11] with the double-headed eagle bearing a shield on its breast and wearing a golden crown over both of its heads, the same tricolour[12] with a blue saltire over it, and a cross flag[13] showing red and white quartering with a blue cross over all.[14] The cross flag is depicted upon the Construction of Kronschloss Medal,[15] which commemorates the construction of Fort Kronschlot (Kronschloss) in Kronstadt by Peter the Great in 1704, the colours of the flag being determined according to the hatchings engraved.

The armorial banner of Peter the Great was created in 1696. Made from red taffeta with a white border, the flag depicted a golden eagle hovering over the sea. On the chest of the eagle in the circle is the Saviour, next to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. The banner was likely made for the second Azov campaign.[16]

Taking the fortress of Azov. 1696 by Adrian Shkhonebek

In 1693, Franz Timmerman received the order to build merchant ships in Arkhangelsk and trade with Europe. He was told to display the two-headed eagle spread with wings, with three crowns over it. On the chest of the eagle, a warrior on horseback was to be displayed with a spear, in a military harness. The same eagle was also to hold a sceptre with the right leg and an apple with a crest with the left. The same instructions were given to other traders.[17]

Russian flag (lower right) on the Practice battle on the river IJ in honour of Peter I, September 1697. Painting by Abraham Storck, 1700

According to Dutch newspapers, in June 1694, a 44-gun frigate bought by Russia and built in Rotterdam stood in the Amsterdam roadstead under the white-blue-red flag.[18]

In 1696, at the mouth of the river Don, a Russian flotilla of armed rowboats blocked the supply of the Ottoman fortress of Azov. On the 1700 engraving by Adrian Shkhonebek, Taking the fortress of Azov. 1696, depicts the ships carrying rectangular panels on the flagpoles, the heraldic shading of which shows that some of the flags are blue with a straight red cross, and the rest are white with a straight red cross. A number of researchers doubt the accuracy of Shkonebek’s engraving because he was not a witness to the events.[19]

Images of various white-blue-red Russian flags are present in the three later paintings of Abraham Storck’s workshop dedicated to the arrival in Amsterdam of Peter I. Peter I took part in a practice battle on the river IJ while on board the yacht of the Dutch East India Company.[20] In the paintings of Abraham Stork depicting the show fight, this yacht sails under the white-blue-red flag with a double-headed eagle, or under a white-red-blue pennant and a white-red-blue aft flag with a double-headed eagle.

In October 1699, Peter I, on the back of the sheet with instructions sent to the Russian envoy Yemelyan Ukraintsev in Istanbul, drew a sketch of a three-band white-blue-red flag.[21]

In December 1699, the Austrian ambassador Anton Paleyer gave a list of weapons and flags seen on the vessels of the Azov Flotilla in a letter. He described seeing three small flags of white-red-blue colours and two regimental colours of red and white mixed in with other colours.[22]

In April 1700, Peter I ordered the Kremlin Armoury to build white-red-violet sea banners.[23] The design and dimensions of these banners correspond to the figure and the size of the regimental banner kept among the other 352 trophy Russian banners in the burial vault of Swedish kings – the Riddarholm Church in Stockholm.[24]

The three-band white-blue-red flag, as well as the flag with a red Jerusalem cross, were also used on warships up to 1720 as signals.[25]

  • Practice battle on the river IJ in honor of Peter I, Abraham Storck, Amsterdam Museum[26]

    Practice battle on the river IJ in honor of Peter I, Abraham Storck, Amsterdam Museum[26]

  • Flag with a Jerusalem Cross, 1693

    Flag with a Jerusalem Cross, 1693

  • White-red-violet banners ordered by Peter I and captured by Swedes during the Battle of Narva in 1700

    White-red-violet banners ordered by Peter I and captured by Swedes during the Battle of Narva in 1700

  • Philipp Heinrich Müller, Construction of Kronschloss Medal, 1704

    Philipp Heinrich Müller, Construction of Kronschloss Medal, 1704

  • Black-and-white sketch of the flag, 1885

    Black-and-white sketch of the flag, 1885

  • Order by Tsar Alexander II on the official flag of the Russian Empire

    Order by Tsar Alexander II on the official flag of the Russian Empire

Russian flag during WWI on a postcard (1914–1917)[a]

The Russian tricolour flag was adopted as a merchant flag at rivers in 1705. These colours of the flag of Russia would later inspire the choice of the «Pan-Slavic colours» by the Prague Slavic Congress, 1848. Two other Slavic countries, Slovakia and Slovenia, have flags similar to the Russian one, but with added coats-of-arms for differentiation. On 7 May 1883, the Russian flag was authorized to be used on land, and it became an official National flag before the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II in 1896.

The flag continued to be used by the Russian Provisional Government after the Tsar was toppled in the February Revolution and was not replaced until the October Revolution which established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.

1918–1991: Civil War and Soviet Union[edit]

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918–1937)

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Russian SFSR (1937–1954)

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Russian SFSR (1954–1991)

On 8 April 1918, the flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was discussed at a meeting of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR. The Council proposed that the All-Russian Central Executive Committee create a red flag with the abbreviation for the phrase Workers of the world, unite! However, the proposal was not adopted. On 13 April 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee established the RSFSR flag to be a red banner with the inscription Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. The text of the decree did not contain any clarification regarding the colour, size and location of the inscription, or the width and length ratio of the cloth.

On 17 June 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee approved a sample image of the flag of the RSFSR, developed on behalf of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR by the graphic artist Sergey Chekhonin. The flag was a red rectangular panel, in the upper corner of which was placed the inscription RSFSR in gold letters stylized as Slavic. This inscription was separated from the rest of the cloth on both sides by gold stripes forming a rectangle.

On 30 December 1922, the RSFSR combined with the Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, and Transcaucasian SFSR to form the Soviet Union. The national flag of the USSR was established on 18 April 1924, described in the Constitution of the USSR as a red or scarlet rectangular cloth with a 1:2 width to length ratio, with a gold sickle and hammer in the top corner next to the flagpole and a red five-pointed star framed with a golden border. This flag was carried by all ships of the USSR and diplomatic representations of the USSR. The 1:2 red flag was used, until replaced in 1954 with the universal design of the Soviet flag with a blue stripe along the mast.

Contrary to the belief that the USSR state flag outranked the flag of the RSFSR, the actual use of the USSR flag was limited. The USSR flag in Russia flew only over two buildings, that of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and the Council of People’s Commissars. That decision was adopted on 23 March 1925, also establishing that the flag of the RSFSR had to be raised constantly not only on the buildings of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars but also on the buildings of all local soviets, including village soviets and district soviets in cities. On holidays, the RSFSR flag had to be raised on many public buildings (such as schools, hospitals, and government offices).[27]

During the Second World War, the white-blue-red tricolour was used by Nazi collaborators, most of whom were from groups targeted by the repressions of the Stalin era, including anti-communist Christians and the remnants of the Kulaks, who generally regarded the Nazi invasion as a liberation of Russia from communism to preserve White Christendom. Thus, in the war, the troops known as the Russian Liberation Army, led by Andrey Vlasov, who was allied with Germany against the Soviet Union, flew the tricolour flag, as well as the St Andrew’s Flag, as they fought against the Soviet Army.[28][29]

On 20 January 1947, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR found it necessary to amend the national flags of the allied republics so that the flags reflected the idea of a Soviet Union state as well as the unique national identities of the republics. On each of the flags was placed the emblem of the USSR, a sickle and a hammer with a red five-pointed star, with the inclusion of national ornaments and new colours.[30] The new RSFSR flag was established in January 1954: a red rectangular panel with a light blue strip near the pole running the full width of the flag. In the upper left corner of the red canvas were depicted a golden sickle and a hammer and above them a red five-pointed star framed with a golden border. By the Law of the RSFSR of 2 June 1954, this flag was approved and the description of the flag was included in Article 149 of the Constitution of the RSFSR.[31]

1991–present: Russian Federation[edit]

During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after the 1991 August Coup, the Russian SFSR adopted a new flag design similar to the pre-revolutionary tricolour that had been abolished in 1917. The ratio of the new flag was 1:2, and the flag colours consisted of white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. The flag design remained the same until 1993, when the original Russian tricolour was fully restored as the current flag after the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis.[citation needed] Following the events of the attempted coup in Moscow, the supreme soviet of the Russian SFSR declared, by resolution dated 22 August 1991,[32] that the old imperial tricolour flag serve as the national flag of the state. The constitution was subsequently amended by Law No. 1827-1 1 November 1991.[33] At the disintegration of the USSR on 25 December 1991, the Soviet flag was lowered from Kremlin and then replaced by the tricolour flag.

The modern era flag underwent a proportion change from 1:2 to 2:3 in 1993 and has been most recently provided for by a 2000 law.[34] On 11 December 1993, President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin signed Decree No. 2126 «On the State Flag of the Russian Federation».[35] In Article 1 of the decree, the flag was described as a «rectangular panel of three equal horizontal stripes: the top – white, middle – blue, and bottom – red, with a width to length ratio of 2:3.»

The National Flag Day is an official holiday in Russia, established in 1994. It is celebrated on 22 August, the day of the victory over putschists in 1991, but employees remain at work.

Symbolism[edit]

At the times of Alexander III of Russia the official interpretation was as follows: the white color symbolizes nobility and frankness; the blue for faithfulness, honesty, impeccability, and chastity; and the red for courage, generosity, and love. A common unofficial interpretation was: Red: Great Russia, White: White Russia, Blue: Little Russia.[36]

Regulations[edit]

When the Russian flag and the flags of the Russian federal subjects are flown at the same time, the national flag should be:

  • on the left if two flags are raised
  • in the middle if the number of flags is odd
  • and to the left of the centre if the number is even

The flag cannot be smaller, or lower than a regional flag.[37]

Colour specifications[edit]

Specifications for the flag of Russia

Federal constitutional law of the Russian Federation only says that the colours of the flag are «white», «blue» (синий, or dark blue, as Russian has two colours that are called «blue» in English), and «red». The Federal Constitutional Law on the State Flag of the Russian Federation does not actually specify which shades the colours should be. Russian government agencies when ordering the manufacture of cloth for the flag indicate the following Pantone colours: white, blue (Pantone 286C), and red (Pantone 485C).[38][39][40]

Scheme White Blue Red
RAL 9016 5005 3028
Pantone White 286 C 485 C
RGB 255–255–255 0–50–160[41] 218–41–28[42]
CMYK 0–0–0–0 100–80–0–12[41] 0–95–100–00[42]
HTML #FFFFFF #0032A0 #DA291C

Colour specifications for different colour shades[edit]

Scheme White Blue Red
Pantone White 280 C 180 C
RGB 255–255–255 1–20–122 195–52–36
CMYK 0–0–0–0 99–84–0–52 0–73–82–24
HTML #FFFFFF #01147A #C33424

The album of national flags, published by the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Russian Navy, gives the following shades of colours of the flag of Russia in Pantone:[43]

Scheme White Blue Red
Pantone White 293C 485C

The colours following are for the old, Post-Soviet flag of Russia:

Flag of Russia (1991–1993).svg
Colors scheme
White Azure Scarlet
RAL 9016 5012 3020
CMYK 0-0-0-0 100-39-0-9 0-94-85-14
HEX #FFFFFF #018DE9 #DB0D20
RGB 255-255-255 1-141-233 219-13-32

Variant versions[edit]

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Tsar, c.17th century

Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Presidential standard

A variant of the flag was authorized for private use by Tsar Nicholas II before World War I, adding the large state eagle on a yellow field (imperial standard) in the canton. It has never been used as the official state flag. Likewise, today some Russian people may use another variant of the flag defaced with the double-headed eagle from the coat of arms in the middle and the golden word РОССИЯ at the bottom.[44]

After the October Revolution of 1917, the tricolour design was banned, and a definitive new flag of the RSFSR (one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union) was introduced in 1954 (see flag of Russian SFSR), and this remained the republic’s flag until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. All of the Soviet Republics’ flags were created by introducing a small but noticeable change to the flag of the Soviet Union. For Russia, the change was an introduction of the left-hand blue band. The previous Soviet design was different, a plain red flag with different variants of the «RSFSR» abbreviation in the canton. Today, the Soviet flag is used by the supporters and members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

The tricolour was used by the anticommunist forces during the Civil War called the White movement. It was continued to be used by White émigrés in various countries as the Russian flag. The tricolour was associated both in Soviet Russia as well as the Russian White emigre communities as symbolizing a traditional tsarist Orthodox Russia. It, as well as the naval ensign of the Imperial Russian Navy was used by anticommunist Russian troops under German command during the Second World War. Both flags can be seen inside a few Orthodox churches in the West established by the Russian communities. In the Soviet Union, this flag was used in films set in the prerevolutionary period and was seen as a historical flag, especially after the 1940s.

It, rather than the black-yellow-white colour combination, was readopted by Russia on 22 August 1991. That date is celebrated yearly as the national flag day.[citation needed]

The President of Russia uses a Presidential Standard (Russian: Штандарт Президента), which was introduced via Presidential Decree No.319 on 15 February 1994, it is officially defined as the square tricolour with the coat of arms (in this case the double-headed eagle is depicted without the shield) in the middle.[45][46]

Unicode[edit]

The Flag of Russia is represented as the Unicode emoji sequence U+1F1F7 🇷 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER R and U+1F1FA 🇺 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER U, making «🇷🇺».[47]

See also[edit]

  • Coat of arms of Moscow
  • Coat of arms of Russia
  • Flags of the federal subjects of Russia
  • List of Russian flags
  • Flag of the Russian-American Company
  • Pan-Slavic colours
  • Flag of Dagestan (nearly identical design, green stripe instead of white)
  • Flag of the Donetsk People’s Republic (nearly identical design, black stripe instead of white)
  • Flag of Colombia (nearly identical design, yellow stripe instead of white)
  • Flag of the Luhansk People’s Republic (nearly identical design, turquoise stripe instead of white)
  • Flag of Slovakia (nearly identical design, defaced with the coat of arms at the hoist side)
  • Flag of Slovenia (nearly identical design, defaced with the coat of arms at the hoist side)
  • Flag of Transnistria
  • White-blue-white flag (variant used by anti-war protesters against the invasion of Ukraine)

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Introduced in 1914 as a flag «for private use» to support patriotism during the war. Plans to formally adopt this design after the war were abolished after the fall of the monarchy.

References[edit]

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  3. ^ Flag T.H. Eriksen & R. Jenkins, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America. Abingdon, 2007, p. 23
  4. ^ Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great, 160 (Modern Library Edition 2012)
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  29. ^ Kathleen E. Smith: Mythmaking in the New Russia: Politics and Memory During the Yeltsin Era. Cornell University Press, 2002. p. 160
  30. ^ Центральный Государственный архив Киргизской ССР, ф.1445, оп.3, д.29, л.2, цит. по: Вексиллологический справочник по флагам Российской Империи и СССР, Т.1/сост. Соколов В. А. — М.: МГИУ, 2002, ISBN 5-276-00240-1, СС.399–400
  31. ^ Закон РСФСР от 2 июня 1954 г. «О Государственном флаге РСФСР»
  32. ^ per Resolution No. 1627/1-I of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 22 August 1991
  33. ^ per Law No. 1827-1 of the RSFSR of 1 November 1991
  34. ^ per Decree No. 2126 of 11 December 1993
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  • Official image of the Russian flag, on the official site of the Russian President
  • Federal Constitutional Law of 25 December 2000 No. 1-FKZ «On the State Flag of the Russian Federation» (including amendments). pravo.gov.ru (in Russian)
  • Timeline Russian National Flag (in Italian)
  • Flag of Russia – old link (in Russian)
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один из атрибутов (символов) РФ как государства. Согласно Положению о Государственном флаге РФ, утвержденному Указом Президента РФ от 11 декабря 1993 г. (в редакции Указов от 20 августа 1994 г., 25 и 28 сентября 1999 г.), Г. ф. РФ представляет собой прямоугольное полотнище из трех равновеликих полос: верхней — белого, средней — синего и нижней — красного цвета. Отношение ширины флага к его длине — 2:3. Согласно ст. 70 Конституции РФ, государственные флаг, герб и гимн РФ, их описание и порядок официального использования устанавливаются федеральным конституционным законом. (Пока он не принят.)

По Конституции 1978 г. (ст. 181) Г. ф. РСФСР представлял собой красное прямоугольное полотнище со светло-синей полосой у древка по всей ширине флага, которая составляла одну восьмую длины флага. В левом верхнем углу красного полотнища изображались золотые серп и молот и над ними — красная пятиконечная звезда, обрамленная золотой каймой. Отношение ширины флага к его длине было 1:2.

Трехцветный российский флаг официально заменил прежний флаг на основе постановления Верховного Совета РСФСР «Об официальном признании и использовании Национального флага РСФСР» от 22 августа 1991 г. В нем говорилось, что до установления специальным законом новой государственной символики РФ считать исторический флаг России — полотнище из равновеликих горизонтальных белой, лазоревой и алой полос — официальным Национальным флагом РФ. При конституционной реформе 1 ноября 1991 г. положение о тех же трех цветах государственного флага РСФСР и отношении ширины флага к его длине 1:2 включается в Основной Закон. Положение 1993 г. определило сегодняшние, приведенные выше параметры Г. ф. РФ.

Г. ф. РФ поднимается на зданиях, где проводятся заседания Государственной Думы и Совета Федерации, зданиях-резиденциях Президента РФ, Правительства РФ, Конституционного Суда РФ, Верховного Суда РФ, Высшего Арбитражного Суда РФ — постоянно; на зданиях центральных органов федеральной исполнительной власти, других органов государственной власти, органов местного самоуправления, общественных объединений, предприятий, учреждений и организаций, независимо от форм собственности, а также на жилых домах — в дни государственных праздников и памятных событий; на зданиях дипломатических представительств, консульских учреждений и иных официальных представительств РФ за границей или при международных организациях — в соответствии с нормами международного права, правилами дипломатического протокола и традициями страны пребывания; на транспортных средствах Президента РФ, Председателя Правительства РФ, руководителей государственных и правительственных делегаций, глав дипломатических представительств, консульских учреждений РФ за границей, глав постоянных представительств РФ при международных организациях, на морских судах, судах внутреннего плавания, на которых в качестве официальных лиц находятся Президент РФ, Председатель Правительства РФ или другие лица, представляющие Президента и Правительство РФ, — в соответствии с морскими традициями и правилами дипломатического протокола; на судах, внесенных в Государственный судовой реестр РФ или судовой реестр Государственной речной судоходной инспекции — в качестве кормового флага; на буксирных судах — на носовом флагштоке или гафеле. Судно, плавающее под государственным или национальным флагом иностранного государства, должно при прохождении внутреннего моря и(или) внутренних судоходных путей РФ либо во время стоянки в порту РФ в дополнение к своему флагу поднимать и нести в соответствии с международными морскими обычаями также и Г. ф. РФ.

Г. ф. РФ может находиться в рабочих кабинетах Президента РФ, председателей палат Федерального Собрания, Председателя Правительства РФ, федеральных судей, прокуроров, руководителей других государственных органов, органов местного самоуправления. Г. ф. РФ может быть поднят во время церемоний и других торжественных мероприятий, проводимых органами государственной власти РФ, общественными объединениями, предприятиями, учреждениями и организациями, независимо от форм собственности, а также семейных торжественных мероприятий.

Кроме того, Г. ф. РФ может быть поднят в знак траура. В таких случаях в верхней части древка (мачты) Г. ф. РФ крепится черная лента, длина которой равна длине полотнища флага. В знак траура Г. ф. РФ может быть также приспущен до половины древка (мачты).

Свои флаги могут иметь субъекты РФ, административно-территориальные единицы, а также предприятия, учреждения и организации. Однако они не могут быть идентичными Г. ф. РФ. Последний не может использоваться и в качестве геральдической основы указанных флагов. При одновременном поднятии Г. ф. РФ и этих флагов Г. ф. РФ должен быть поднят с левой стороны здания (если стоять лицом к фасаду), а любой другой флаг — с правой стороны; при одновременном поднятии нескольких флагов Г. ф. РФ должен располагаться в центре (при нечетном числе флагов — левее центра). Причем в этих случаях размер любого другого флага не должен быть больше размера Г. ф. РФ.

Контроль за соблюдением норм Положения 1993 г. возлагается на Геральдический совет при Президенте РФ. (С. А.)

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