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Arkhangelsk Region (Russia)

Arkhangelhskaya oblasth

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Архангельская область (Поморе)

Flag of Arkhangelhsk Region from Wikipedia

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Presentation of Arkhangelsk Region

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  • Name (English): Arkhangelsk Region • (Russian, short form): Поморе • (Russian, long form): Архангельская область | Arkhangelhskaya oblasth
    Capital (Russian): Архангельск | Arkhangelhsk • (English): Arkhangelsk
  • Area: 410 700 km2 (~158 500 sq.mi.) • Population: 1 443 300 inhabitants in 2000 • (these figures not including Nenetsia)
  • Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
  • Federal District: Northwestern Region • Economic region: North (northern European Russia) (in the soviet era: Northwest)
  • Flag adopted on 23 September 2009 • Coat of arms unknown

Russian word "Pomorye" as unofficial named to the Region of Arkhangelsk.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 14 November 2005

The islands Franz Joseph Land (Zemlâ Franca-Ĭosifa | Земля Франца-Йосифа) and New Land (Novaya Zemlya | Новая Земля) are part of Arkhagelsk Region, but not part of Nenetsia (which is an autonomous district dependent also from Arkhagelsk Region, and the mainland opposite to all of them). Other nearby islands, Kolguev and Baĭgaĉ, smaller and closer to the shore, do belong to Nenetsia. According to my newer Russian atlases, all these islands are (very sparsely) inhabited exclusively by Russians, except for Novaya Zemlya, that harbours a small Nentsi community in its southern tip.
António Martins, 07 August 1999

Regional flag

Until now, it was one of the few oblast's without the flag. Mikhail Revnivtsev reported to RussoVex the adoption of the flag on September 23, 2009.
It is so-called 'Andreyevskiy krest' (Cross of St.Andrew) or 'Andreyevskiy flag', charged with the shield of 2003 Arkhangelsk Arms featuring the Archangel Michael.
A picture of the new flag can be viewed at: http://www.baltinfo.ru/news/U-Arkhangelskoi-oblasti-poyavilsya-svoi-Andreevskii-flag-106037/
Chrystian Kretowicz, 29 September 2009

Mistaken report

Flag of Arkhangelhsk Region? image by António Martins, 06 Jun 1999

White saltire on 1:2 red, as displayed at the Catalonian Vexillological Association’s on-line database on Russian flags, at www.acv.ptv.es/banrus/.
António Martins, 16 November 1998

Unlike many other reports, the very single reference ever found about this flag was the above mentioned ACV website, and re-reports spun from it. I sincerely think it is a fake — there are just too many other examples of this situation for it to be an occasional misidentification or a genuine rarity.
Victor Lomantsov, 26 November 2002

Flags like this were used by several youth pro-president organizations, led by movement Идущие вместе (= Gone together).
Victor Lomantsov, 14 January 2005