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image by António Martins, 05 Jul 1999
In October 1921 some antibolshevik fighters caming from Vladivostok (Birich and Bochkaryov’s detachments ) constitued in Anadyr the self called
Free State of Chukotka. The flag (reported in [tfb]
and other sources) was white, yellow, blue. Some weeks later, April 1922, Far
Eastern Republic troops take Anadyr without fighting. The Japanese had some
implication in this affair (just like in
Kamchatka).
Jaume Ollé, 16 Apr 2000
image by António Martins, Feb 2001
I know one humorous history about flag of Chukotka. In 1970s cinematographers
made a film about Civil War in Siberia. As far as I know film was about anti-Bolshevik
fighters that came in Anadyr. Cinematographers had no a consultant on flags. And when
they want to make Russian flags of White Army, they mixed up
second and third stripes: They made white, red, blue flag. Some naive vexillologist
saw the movie and decided that white, red and blue is a flag of Chukotka.
Victor Lomantsov, 30 Apr 2000
In 1990s some well-known Russian fake flag fabricator made "flag of Chukotka" and sent that flag to Pavillons, Flag Reports, etc. This seems to be also the origin of fake Civil War flags of Yakutia, Kamchatka, etc. and fake 1990's Russian Oblast and Republic flags. Some fake flags can be seen here http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/mistif3.htm
Russian tricolor was used in Chukotka: to 16 Dec 1919, 31 Jan 1920-28, Jul
1920, and Jan 1922-5 Jan 1923."
Janis Lasmanis / Ben Cahoon, 20
January 2019