Flag of Smolensk Oblast

Smolensk Oblast
Proportion2:3
Adopted22 December 1998
DesignRed field with two horizontal stripes at the bottom, charged with the Coat of arms of Smolensk Oblast at the canton.
Designed byUnknown

The official flag of Smolensk Oblast is adopted on 22 December 1998. the Flag of Smolensk Oblast is a rectangular red cloth with a ratio of width to length 2:3 at the bottom are two gold-yellow stripes occupying 5 percent of the flag width and dividing the flag in width into three parts in a 6:2:1 ratio. Above the flagpole there is a shortened version of the coat of arms of the Smolensk Oblast - a shield with a cap occupying 45 percent of the width and 20 percent of the flag's length, and the vertical axis of the coat of arms divides the flag in a 1:4 ratio. The flag cloth can be framed with gold fringe.

On December 10, 1998, by Decision No. 179, the Regional Duma adopted the Law "On the Coat of Arms and Flag of Smolensk Region" No. 38-z of December 22, 1998. The law entered into force on December 30.

Other flags

Flag Date Use Description
?–present Flag of Smolensk city Red background with 3 vertical gold-yellow stripes with a white square charged with a cannon and the Gamayun on the canton
?–present Flag of Gagarin
?–present Flag of Vyazma
?–present Flag of Roslavl
?–present Flag of Desnogorsk
?–present Flag of Dorogobuzh
?–present Flag of Yelnya
?–present Flag of Demidovsky District
?–present Flag of Dukhovshchinsky District
?–present Flag of Gagarinsky District
?–present Flag of Kardymovsky District
?–present Flag of Khislavichsky District
?–present Flag of Kholm-Zhirkovsky District
?–present Flag of Monastyrshchinsky District
?–present Flag of Pochinkovsky District
?–present Flag of Roslavlsky District
?–present Flag of Shumyachsky District
?–present Flag of Smolensky District
?–present Flag of Sychyovsky District
?–present Flag of Tyomkinsky District
2009–present Flag of Yartsevsky District

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