Sverdlovsk Region (Russia)

Sverdlovskaâ oblasth

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Сведловская область

• Presentation of Sverdlovsk Region
• Description of the flag
• Earlier use of the flag
• Coat of arms detail

• Ural autonomist flags
• pre-Soviet Sverdlovsk Region flags, 1918
• Subdivisions of Sverdlovsk Region
• Russia
• Russian subnational flags (overview of the subdivisions, list of federation “subjects” and clickable map)

• Official website, complete story about the coats of arms in use in the region and about how the flag and the coat of arms of the oblast was created (also in English).
  reported by Pascal Vagnat, 22 Oct 1997
• Coat of arms of Ekaterinburg
  Reported by Michael Simakov, 02 Mar 1999

Presentation of Sverdlovsk Region

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

• Name (English): Sverdlovsk Region • (Russian): Сведловская область | Sverdlovskaâ oblasth
  
• Capital: Екатеринбург | Ekaterinburg • (former name): Sverdlovsk | Сведловск (1924-1991)
• Area: 194 800 km² (~75 200 sq. mi.) • Population: 4 582 400 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Ural • Economic region: Ural
• License plate code: 66 (in the soviet era: СВ | SV) • Ham radio code: SV • ISO 3166-2 code: SVE
• Flag adopted on 1997.04.04 • Coat of arms adopted on 1997.04.04

I want to note: the same case with Sverdlovsk Region with capital Ekaterinburg (from 1924 till 1991 — Sverdlovsk, in honour of one from Bolshevik leader Iakov Sverdlov, chairman of All-Russian Central Executive Committee).
Andrey Jashlavwskij, 19 Jan 1999

Description of the flag

The official proportions are 2:3. There are four stripes; from top to bottom, white (7/20), light blue (9/20), white (1/20), and green (3/20). The full state arms are to be placed on the flag, 3/20 below the top, but it is permissible to make the flag without the arms.
John Ayer, 02 Jan 1999

Though used since 1997, this flag is not registered by the Russian state herald.
Jan Zrzavy, 17 Jul 2001

Sverdlovsk Region now use a simple variant of this flag but with darker shade of blue.
Tomislav Šipek, 29 January 2020
http://ekaterinburg.bezformata.com/listnews/razvevaetsya-gryaznij-i-izorvannij-flag/35139044/
Tomislav Šipek, 29 January 2020

image by António Martins, July 1999

Sverdlovsk Region now use a simple variant of this flag but with darker shade of blue.
Tomislav Šipek, 29 January 2020

Coat of arms detail