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This is a list of flags used in Russia.

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National Flag

Flag Date Use Description
1668?–1918 (as ensign)
1883–1918
1993–present		 State Flag of Russia. A tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal fields, white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom. Used as a commercial and civil maritime ensign from the 1690s (allegedly from 1668) on.

Presidential Flag

Flag Date Use Description
1994–present Flag of the President of Russia. Square version of the Flag of Russia, with the Coat of arms, with a gold fringe.

Military Flags

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of the Ministry of Defence
Armed forces
Banner of Victory (Historical battle flag) The Banner of Victory raised on the Reichstag in 1945. Replicas of the Victory Banner can be used alongside the national flag on Victory Day.
1996–2007 Commemorative flag. The Victory Banner. It had a status similar to that of the national flag, and could be used alongside the national flag on national holidays.
Flag of the Russian Ground Forces.
Flag of the Russian Air Force.
1712–1917
1991–present		 Ensign of the Russian Navy, the so-called андреевский (St. Andrew's) flag. A blue saltire on a white field.
Jack of the Russian Navy. The Ensign of the Russian Navy superimposed on a white cross on a red field.
Flag of the Russian Airborne Troops. A bicolour of horizontal stripes, blue and green defaced with the Russian Airborne Troops emblem.
Flag of the Strategic Rocket Forces.

Non-Military Security Forces

Flag Date Use Description
1992–present Flag of Ministry of Extraordinary Situations
1992–present Departmental Flag of Ministry of Extraordinary Situations
Flag of Border Guard Service of Russia
Ensign of Russian Coast Guard

Historical Flags

Flag Date Use Description
1668 Alleged first Russian flag.
1700[1]–1858 De facto (unofficial) flag of Russia Peter the Great's tricolour was the merchant flag (civil ensign) of Russia. As the oldest civil flag to represent Russia, it was later adopted as the national flag representing the country rather than the Tsar. However, the flags used by the Russian Army were regimental flags with the Double-Headed Eagle, the official Imperial symbol, in the centre. The Imperial Standard was the black Double-Headed Eagle displayed on a golden banner, represented the Tsar, the absolute ruler of the Russian Empire.
1700–1858 Imperial Standard. Yellow banner with Tsar's emblem.
1858–1883 Flag of the Russian Empire for "Celebrations".[2][3][4][5][6] The flag was introduced in 1858, however it was not as popular as the white-blue-red civil ensign, which was adopted in 1883 for land use. In the 20th century there was a widespread myth (based on incorrect statements by the leading Soviet historian K. Ivanov) that Russia had changed her official flag in 1858.[citation needed]
Since the 1990s this flag is used by monarchists and some extreme right political groups.
1858–1917 Imperial Standard. Yellow banner with the coat of arms.
1914–1917 Russian Empire (unofficial, private use only). A tricolour of horizontal stripes, white, blue and red, with a yellow canton with the coat of arms.
1668?–1918 (as ensign)
1883–1918
 State Flag of Russia. A tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal fields, white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom. Used as a commercial and civil maritime ensign from the 1690s (allegedly from 1668) on.
1918–1937 Flag of the Russian SFSR (variant). Red banner with stylized "RSFSR" abbreviation in gold Cyrillic letters in the honour canton.
1937-1954 A modified version of the Russian SFSR flag.
1954–1991 Flag of the Russian SFSR. The Flag of the Soviet Union with a blue band at the hoist.
1923–1955 First flag of the Soviet Union. The flag of the Soviet Union was used in Russia as the state flag throughout the Soviet period until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1955–1980 Second flag of the Soviet Union. The second flag of the Soviet Union changed the hammer and sickle's shape and made it smaller.
1980–1991 Third flag of the Soviet Union. The third flag of the Soviet Union had lighter colors.
1991 Flag of the Russian SFSR. Flag of Russian SFSR from 1 November (de facto from 22 August) 1991 to 25 December 1991.
1991–1993 Flag of the Russian Federation. Official Flag of the Russian Federation from 25 December 1991 to 11 December 1993, when it was replaced by the present version.

See also

References

  1. ^ History of the Russian flag (in Russian)
  2. ^ Bonnell, Victoria E. Russia at the barricades: eyewitness accounts of the August 1991 coup. M.E. Sharpe, 1994, p92
  3. ^ Condee, Nancy. Soviet hieroglyphics: visual culture in late twentieth-century Russia. Indiana University Press, 1995, p49
  4. ^ Saunders, Nicholas J. Matters of conflict: material culture, memory and the First World War. Routledge, 2004, p129
  5. ^ National Museum of Science and Technology (Canada). Material history review. Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2000, p46
  6. ^ CRWflags.com
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