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Vladimir Region (Russia)

Vladimirskaâ oblasth

Last modified: 2006-07-29 by antonio martins
Keywords: vladimir | lion: rampant (yellow) | cross: patriarchal | hammer and sickle (yellow) | hammer and sickle: no star |
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Владимирская область

Flag of Vladimir region
image by António Martins, 11 Dec 2002
See also: Other sites:
  • Regional Government website with a pages about the flag and the coat of arms
    reported by Mello Luchtenberg, 23 Nov 2002

Presentation of Vladimir Region

(Note: You need an Unicode-aware software and font to correctely view the cyrillic text on this page. See here transliteration details).

  • Name (english): Vladimir Region • (russian): Владимирская область | Vladimirskaâ oblasth
  • Capital: Владимир | Vladimir
  • Area: 29 000 km2 (≅11 200 sq.mi.) • Population: 1 594 200 inhabitants in 2000
  • Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
  • Federal District: Central Region • Economic region: Center (central European Russia)
  • License plate code: 33 • Ham radio code: VL • ISO 3166-2 code: VLA
  • Flag adopted on 1999.04.28 • Coat of arms adopted on unkn. date

Description of the flag

Summary Law Of Vladimir Region “On The Flag Of Vladimir Region” (adopted by the State Council of V.R. 28.04.99)

The flag of Vladimir Region is red rectangular bunting with light-blue strip at the hoist and width of one is equal to 1/8 of flag-length. The ratio of the breadth of the flag to its length is 1:2. In the middle of upper part of blue strip the Hammer and Sickle are placed. In the middle of red strip the gold image of coat of arms is placed, the width of one is 1/3 part of flag-length.
Michael Simakov, 25 Jan 2000

The hammer and sickle are rendered starless.
António Martins, 11 Dec 2002

detail

detail of the flag
image by António Martins, 11 Dec 2002

I don’t fully understand why there should be a golden leopard on a golden coat of arms?
Dirk Schönberger, 31 Jan 2000

The legal wording «gold image of coat of arms» is apparently to be enforced this way: with the blue ribbon still visible as such, all the rest to be rendered in a yellow on red silluette, and the charges of the coat of arms to be shown golden lined black on yellow — note the two shades of yellow (golden and yellow proper) and the way the coat of arms is depicted using normal yellow for heraldic gold, while on the flag image it is changed to dark yellow.
António Martins, 11 Dec 2002


Previous flag

Old flag
image by Arcady A. Petrov and Pascal Gross, 26 Apr 1999

I have no information about the status of the plain red flag with coat of arms but, considering that the adoption date of the new flag is 28.04.99, one could guess that it was simply the official flag until that date.
Pascal Gross, 02 Feb 2000

The [former] flag of Wladimir oblast is very similar to the Wladimir city: red with coat of arms in center. The coat of arms is the crowned lion. Around shield there’s a golden wreath with ribbon and above shield there’s a imperial golden crown.
Jaume Ollé, 24 Apr 1999

According to Mr. Arcady A. Petrov, from the Vladimir oblast website, the ratio is 1:2.
Pascal Gross, 26 Apr 1999


Coat of arms

Arms of Vladimir region
image by António Martins, 11 Dec 2002

Wladimir 1781: gules a lion rampant guardant or langued and armed azure crowned with an open royal crown holding a patriarchal cross argent.
Santiago Dotor, 18 Dec 1998

The current regional coat of arms includes also an imperial crown and Alexander (blue) ribbon.
António Martins, 11 Dec 2002


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