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Bobryk (Kyiv, Ukraine)

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image by Ivan Sache, 12 May 2005

The Gonfalon
Coat of Arms
The Village

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The Gonfalon

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"Gonfalon is a rectangular panel, per pale on two vertical strips - red and dark blue. In the first is yellow wooden church, in the second is yellow beaver. (<www.brovary-region.com.ua/silrada/silrada.htm>)."
Dov Gutterman, 8 June 2003

Coat of Arms

image from the site of Ukrainian Heraldry

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"The shield per pale by gules and azure. In the first part is or wooden church, in the second is or beaver. The emblem adorned by or decorative cartouche and crowned by an or rural crown. The image of a or beaver shows an origin of the village name from beavers, and the image of the church on a gules background is a mention of cossacks - settlers which have once built it on island in the middle of Trubailo bog. (<www.brovary-region.com.ua/silrada/silrada.htm>)."
Dov Gutterman, 8 June 2003

The Village

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"According to the Polish sources, the village was found at 1610. People which was engaged beavers hunting lived here. Later it was a typical cossack military settlement."
Dov Gutterman, 8 June 2003