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This is a list of flags used in Russia.

National flag

Flag Date Use Description
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. Since 1700, tricolor has been used as the flag of the Tsar of Moscow by Peter the Great. Also this flag was a national trade and it was raised on Russian merchant ships.[1] It existed before the introduction in 1858 of a black-yellow-white tricolor. Since 1896, it again became the national flag of the Russian Empire.[2][3] It was also used by the Russian state during the Civil War in Russia.

Military flags

Main article: List of USSR navy 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 Andreevskiy (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 Emergency Situations
1992–present Departmental Flag of Ministry of Emergency Situations
Flag of Border Service of the Federal Security Service
Ensign of Russian Coast Guard

Flags of republics within Russia

Main article: Flags of the federal subjects of Russia

Flags of Russian oblasts

Main article: Flags of the federal subjects of Russia

Flags of Russian cities

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of Astrakhan
Flag of Barnaul
Flag of Chelyabinsk
Flag of Cherepovets A blue pall on a golden background.
Flag of Irkutsk
Flag of Ivanovo
Flag of Izhevsk
Flag of Kaliningrad
Flag of Kaluga
Flag of Kazan
Flag of Kirov
Flag of Krasnodar
Flag of Krasnoyarsk
Flag of Kursk
Flag of Lipetsk
Flag of Magnitogorsk
1995–present Flag of Moscow
File:Flag of Murmansk.png Flag of Murmansk
Flag of Nizhny Novgorod
Flag of Nizhny Tagil
Flag of Norilsk
Flag of Novokuznetsk
Flag of Novosibirsk
Flag of Omsk
Flag of Orenburg
Flag of Oryol
Flag of Perm
Flag of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Flag of Petrozavodsk
Flag of Pskov
Flag of Rostov-on-Don
Flag of Ryazan
1992–present Flag of St Petersburg
Flag of Samara
Flag of Saratov
Flag of Sergiyev Posad
Flag of Stavropol
Flag of Sochi
Flag of Suzdal
Flag of Tolyatti
Flag of Tomsk
Flag of Tula
Flag of Tver
Flag of Ufa
Flag of Ulyanovsk A vertical triband flag of blue, white, and blue, with a golden crown in the middle of the white stripe.
Flag of Veliky Novgorod
Flag of Vladimir
Flag of Vladivostok
1999–present Flag of Volgograd The arms of the city of Volgograd on a red background.
Flag of Vologda
Flag of Voronezh
Flag of Yakutsk
1996–present Flag of Yaroslavl The arms of the city of Yaroslavl on a blue background.
Flag of Yekaterinburg

Historical flags

Flag Date Use Description
1668–1693 Flag of the ship Oryol First navy flag of the Tsardom of Russia
1693–1700 Flag of the Tsar of Moscow
1705[4]–1918 Unofficial civil 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.
1703-1917 Naval Imperial Standard Yellow banner with Tsar's emblem
1721–1730 Imperial Standard The first main banner of the Russian Empire. The flag was approved by the Emperor Peter_I.[citation needed]
1730–1799 Imperial Standard New standard of the Russian Monarchs and the main banner of the Russian Empire. The flag was approved by the Empress Anna.[citation needed]
File:Russian Imperial Standart 1799.png 1799–1801 Imperial Standard New Imperial Standart with coat of arms of Paul I. On the chest of the eagle is the Maltese cross, because the Russian Emperor Paul I was the head of the Maltese Order.[citation needed]
1801-1830 Imperial Standard

The Emperor Alexander refused the title of the head of the Order of Malta and the cross was removed from the chest of the eagle. [citation needed]

File:Russian Imperial Standart 1830.png 1830–1857 Imperial Standard New Imperial Standart with new eagle which has coats of arms of main parts of the Empire. The flag was approved by the Emperor Nicolay I.[citation needed]
File:Russian Imperial Standart 1857.png 1857–1883 Imperial Standard Imperial Standart of Alexander II. A year later was created first Russian state Flag and since then the standard with the eagle has ceased to be the main banner of the country.[citation needed]
1883-1917 Imperial Standard Final version of the Imperial Standart by Alexander III. In the years 1896-1917 this standard was the main banner of the Russian Empire, the flag was depicted on all posters and postcards of Entente during WWI and earlier.[citation needed]
1858–1917 First official State Flag of the Russian Empire and Flag for "Celebrations"[5][6][7][8][9] 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]
This flag represented not only Russia but the entire area of the Empire (including Northern Kaukasus, Central Asia, etc.), while the white-blue-red stood for Russia only.

This is similar to the Union Jack[citation needed] which represents the United Kingdom, while Scotland, England, and Wales also have flags of their own. Since the 1990s this flag has been used by monarchists and some extreme right political groups. [citation needed]

1914–1917 Russian Empire (unofficial) A tricolour of horizontal stripes, white, blue and red, with a yellow canton with the coat of arms.
1918–1937 Flag of the Russian SFSR Red banner with stylized "RSFSR" abbreviation in gold Cyrillic letters in the golden bordered honour canton
1937–1954 Flag of the Russian SFSR Red banner with stylized "RSFSR" abbreviation in gold Cyrillic letters in the honour canton
1954–1991 Flag of the Russian SFSR The flag of the Soviet Union with a blue band at the hoist
1922–1923 First Flag of the Soviet Union The first flag of the Soviet Union
1923–1924 Second Flag of the Soviet Union The second flag of the Soviet Union with the golden bordered canton
1924–1936 Third Flag of the Soviet Union The third flag of the Soviet Union was used in Russia as the state flag throughout the Soviet period until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1936–1955 Fourth Flag of the Soviet Union The fourth flag of the Soviet Union with the different hammer and sickle
1955–1980 Fifth flag of the Soviet Union The fifth flag of the Soviet Union changed the hammer and sickle's shape and made it smaller.
1980–1991 Sixth and final flag of the Soviet Union The sixth 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
1993–present Current national flag Current flag of the Russian Federation. Has a darker tint to the blue than the previous flag.

Chinese Eastern Railway flags

Flag Date Use Description
1897–1915 Railway flag First railway flag of the Chinese Eastern Railway
1915–1925 Railway flag Second railway flag of the Chinese Eastern Railway
1925–1932 Railway flag Third railway flag of the Chinese Eastern Railway
1932–1935 Railway flag Fourth railway flag of the Chinese Eastern Railway

See also

References

  1. ^ Цвета Русского Государственного национального флага (in Russian).
  2. ^ "Высочайшее повеление о признании во всех случаях бело-сине-красного флага национальным — Викитека". ru.wikisource.org (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-05-11.
  3. ^ Свод морских постановлений. Книга десятая. Морской устав. Издание 1901 года. С.-Петербург: Типография Морского Министерства в Главном Адмиралтействе. 1902. pp. 340.
  4. ^ History of the 705Russian flag Archived 2010-01-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  5. ^ Bonnell, Victoria E. Russia at the barricades: eyewitness accounts of the August 1991 coup. M.E. Sharpe, 1994, p92
  6. ^ Condee, Nancy. Soviet hieroglyphics: visual culture in late twentieth-century Russia. Indiana University Press, 1995, p49
  7. ^ Saunders, Nicholas J. Matters of conflict: material culture, memory and the First World War. Routledge, 2004, p129
  8. ^ National Museum of Science and Technology (Canada). Material history review. Canada Science and Technology Museum, 2000, p46
  9. ^ CRWflags.com
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