Day of State Flag of Ukraine – RIA Novosti

Day of State Flag of Ukraine is celebrated on August 23. This holiday was approved in 2004 by the decree of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.

Earlier, the State Flag Day was celebrated only in Kiev at the municipal level. The capital of this festival is celebrated on July 24.

On this day in 1990, the blue and yellow flag was raised over the Kiev mayor’s office.

According to the Constitution, the national flag of Ukraine is a rectangular two- equal horizontal stripes: top – blue and the bottom – yellow.

The value of blue and yellow colors on the flag are traditionally treated as a combination of pure, peaceful, cloudless sky, stretching over yellow grain field – a symbol of peaceful labor and welfare

The yellow-blue colors symbolized the Kyivan State even before the Christianization of Rus. After the invasion of the Tatars the symbolism for a time disappeared, but eventually revived on the arms of most Ukrainian cities: almost all of them framed in yellow and blue.

The first documented use of yellow and blue was the coat of arms of Lviv land. Banner “Leopolskaya” (Lviv), which depicted a “yellow lion, rising on a rock, on an azure field,” used the troops back in 1410 during the Battle of Grunwald against the Crusaders.

In the XVI-VII centuries Zaporizhia Army used the banners of different colors, but the XVIII century began to be used mainly in blue and yellow. In 1803, Emperor Alexander I Black Sea Cossack Army, formed in 1787 from part of the troops loyal Cossacks which is based on the former Zaporozhye Cossacks were granted two flag yellow-blue and blue-yellow color.

Some researchers believe the starting point of the current national flag of Ukraine in 1848 when, during the revolution in the Austrian Empire, the main Russian Rada Lviv was first used yellow-blue flag.

November 20 (November 7, Old Style), 1917, was proclaimed the creation of Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR), flag the military in January 1918 has been recognized by the blue and yellow dvutsvet, on a blue field, which depicts a golden trident.

The resulting later Ukrainian People’s Republic of Soviets at the I Congress of Soviets of Ukraine 11 December 12, 1917 in Kharkiv declared flag red flag with the national yellow-blue canton (insert in the corner of the cloth).

March 10, 1919 in Kharkiv at the III Congress of Soviets of Ukraine adopted the first Constitution of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. This document established a new version of the state flag in the form of red cloth, in the left corner that put the gold letters “” U.S.C.R.. “In 1927, changed to the abbreviation” SSR “. Officially, it was stipulated by the constitution in 1929.

In November 1949, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR approved a new Ukrainian flag, which consisted of red (top) and azure (below) bands with a gold star and the hammer and sickle in the upper left corner. This option is Ukrainian national flag lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

January 28, 1992 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the national flag of Ukraine’s blue-and-yellow flag.

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