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The national flag of the Russian Federation (Russian: Государственный флаг Российской Федерации, Gosudarstvenny flag Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is a tricolour of three equal horizontal bands: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. The design was first introduced by Tsar Peter the Great in ...
Regional indicator symbol. The regional indicator symbols are a set of 26 alphabetic Unicode characters (A–Z) intended to be used to encode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes in a way that allows optional special treatment. These were defined by October 2010 as part of the Unicode 6.0 support for emoji, as an alternative to encoding ...
The Imperial Standard was the black Double-Headed Eagle displayed on a golden banner, which represented the Empire and the Emperor, the absolute ruler of Russia. [4] When the black-yellow-white flag was in use between 1858 and 1896, the white-blue-red flag was still used as a merchant ensign. [4] 1721–1896.
Serp i Molot (transliteration of Russian: cерп и молот, "sickle and hammer") is the name of the Moscow Metallurgical Plant. Serp i Molot is also the name of a stop on the electric railway line from Kurski railway station in Moscow to Gorky, featured in Venedikt Yerofeyev 's novel, Moscow-Petushki.
Map of the federal subjects of Russia with their flags. This gallery of flags of federal subjects of Russia shows the flags of the 89 federal subjects of Russia including 2 regions that, while being de facto under complete Russian control, are not internationally recognized as part of Russia (Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol), and 4 regions that, while not being fully controlled ...
Flag of Russia.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 533 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 213 pixels | 640 × 427 pixels | 1,024 × 683 pixels | 1,280 × 853 pixels | 2,560 × 1,707 pixels. The source code of this SVG is valid. This is a local copy of an image on Commons, uploaded to ensure protection because it is one of the ...
The pan-Slavic colors — blue, white and red —were defined by the Prague Slavic Congress, 1848, based on the symbolism of the colors of the flag of Russia, which was introduced in the late 17th century. Historically, however, many Slavic nations and states had already adopted flags and other national symbols that used some combination of ...
The Russian Federation has several official national symbols including a historical document, a flag, an emblem, a national anthem. The current design of the national flag is the same as the Russian Empire and was officially adopted again after the dissolution of the Soviet Union .