Altay Territory (Russia)

Altaĭskiĭ kraĭ

Last modified: 2009-09-12 by antónio martins
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Алтайский край

• Description of the flag
• Presentation of Altay Territory
• Presidential Standard
• Barnaul city flag

• Russia
• Altay Republic
• Russian subnational flags (overview of the subdivisions, list of federation “subjects” and clickable map)
• Siberia

• Coat of arms of Altay Territory. On the same server, images of the arms and flag. Apparently no page about the flag, only about the arms — even though there’s a flag image in the server…
  reported by António Martins, 30 Jun 2002, and Pascal Gross, 07 Jun 2000
• Flag of Altay Territory
  reported by Wadim Kiva, 21 Dec 2000
• Coat of arms of Altay Territory
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 18 Dec 1998

Description of the flag

In 29 June 2000 Altai kray adopted a flag. Following other regions, it adopted the pattern of the old SSR Russia, with arms in center. In the blue band is a spike of wheat. Blue and red parts are separated by a very narrow band which is (of course) white.
Jaume Ollé, 09 Aug 2000

In Vexilologie 120 [vex]: 2245-2246, there is an article by Mikhail Revnivtsev about some Russian regional flags [rev01]. It says the blue and red stripes are 1:5, there is no white stripe, the ear should be yellow (i.e. probably without red pattern). Adopted 04-07-2000.
Jan Zrzavy, 17 Jul 2001

Presentation of Altay Territory

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

• Name (english): Altay Territory • (russian): Алтайский край | Altaĭskiĭ kraĭ
  
• Capital: Барнаул | Barnaul
• Area: 169 100 km² (≅65 300 sq.mi.) • Population: 2 642 000 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Territory (край | kraĭ) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Siberia • Economic region: West Siberia
• License plate code: 22 • Ham radio code: AL • ISO 3166-2 code: ALT
• Flag adopted on 2000.06.29 • Coat of arms adopted on unkn. date

There are two Altay in Russian Federation: Altai Republic and Altai Territory. A few years ago Altai Republic was the part of the Altai Territory, but now it is a constituent republic of the Russian Federation.
Evgeny Ivanov 22 Apr 1998

Presidential Standard

Also there are the symbols combining symbolic of the arms and a flag, but thus, the documents regulating their use are not known. Such are a flag in studies of president of Republic Altai.
Sergey Filatov, 10 Oct 2005

Most of these flags are squarish (about 11:12), rigid and fringed variants of the region (Governors) or Republic (Presidents) flags with the regional emblem over all.
António Martins, 02 Oct 2005

Barnaul city flag

The flag of Barnaul described in Statutes of Barnaul (Ustav) adopted 16, November, 1995. The flag is light-blue with coat of arms in the centre. Ratio 2:3. Light-blue colour symbolize the river Ob, beauty of the city. Coat of arms of Barnaul adopted in middle of XIX, when Barnaul was small town inside Tomsk Governorat. The horse in city arms symbolize the city of Tomsk (Tomsk arms: "Vert, a Horse courant argent"), former administrative center of region.
Victor Lomantsov, 09 Mar 2003

variant?

A different version is available on line.
Jens Pattke, 28 Jan 2002

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