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The flag and coat of arms (which in the center of the flag) is adopted in 19th
of October 2000, by the order #1046 of Kostroma oblast legislative body. By the law
of Kostroma oblast from 19th of October, the flag was given the lawfull status.
There were special comission assigned to design the flag. They all have common
responsibilities for their decision.
Vad Repin, 17 Nov 2000
The coat-or-arms shows a galera (a ship with rows and sail) with a white
sail and hoisting the imperial flag. According to
the Russian TV channel Kulhtura, this coat of arms was granted by Catherine
the Great, later taken away by her son, and readopted on 1992. The flag design is
an evident reminiscence from the R.S.F.S.F. flag.
António Martins, 21 Dec 1999 and 23 Jan 2001
Only one Emperor’s Standard (yellow with
black eagle with maps in his claws) existed in times of Catherine the
Great. She used it. Kostroma (city on Volga River) have the arms: «Azure,
a ship of Catherine the Great with Emperor’s Standard on main-mast».
Victor Lomantsov, 02 Jun 2000
Kostroma city flag is made of four
horizontal stripes: light blue, golden
yellow, white, and blue. These colors
are said to stand respectively for the
sky, the golden domes of the local
churches, their walls, and the Volga
river. (On the image above, ratio 2:3
assumed.) These are also the colors of
the city coat-or-arms,
(Source: Russian TV channel Kulhtura)
António Martins, 21 Dec 1999
The Kostroma city flag with four stripes, as shown
by Cultura TV channel, is to be with no lawfull status.
So is unofficial and never used.
Vad Repin, 17 Nov 2000
A Kostroma coat of arms was shown (on Russian
TV channel Kulhtura), quartered with a six
pointed star on 1 and 4 and a crescent on 2 and 3,
but each qurter had different metals and tints (I
can’t say which because the picture was black and
white). This was, if I understood correctly, the
provincial coat of arms of Kostroma, prior to 1917.
António Martins, 21 Dec 1999
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