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image by Valentin Poposki, 12 July 2020
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The City of Kyiv is an independent city at the Oblast level in Ukraine. Its
administrative-territorial division was changed several times before 2001. The
former 14 rayons were reconstructed to became 10, and that is the situation ever
since.
Valentin Poposki, 12 July 2020
See also:
From the site of Ukrainian
Heraldry:
"In May 1995 the session of the town council approved the
gonfalon: a rectangular canvas of dark blue colour with a ratio
of the sides: 2:3. In the centre there is an image of Archangel
Mykhail."
Phil Nelson, 7 July 1999
Symbols (flag, emblem and anthem) are prescribed in the
by-laws of the territorial community of Kyiv, adopted by the city
council in March 2002.
Ivan Sache, 28 January 2009
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image by Victor Lomantsov, 26 March 2009
On 28 January 2009, "Kyiv Post"
reports that the city state administration has set up a
commission to officialize the flag and emblem of the town. The
adopted emblems should be very similar to the emblems already in
unofficial use. Symbols (flag, emblem and anthem) are prescribed
in the by-laws of the territorial community of Kyiv, adopted by
the city council in March 2002.
Ivan Sache, 28 January 2009
On 25 March 2009, "The Kyiv Post" reports the
selection of a flag draft as follows:
"The workgroup of the Kyiv city state administration has
selected the draft images of the city flag and emblem, the press
service of the city state administration told the Ukrainian News
agency.
The draft images have been worked out by heraldry specialist
Oleksii Rudenko and artist Vitalii Mytchenko. Thus, the image of
the large emblem is blue coat of arms with rounded bottom,
depicting silver Archangel Michael in the coat with a golden
aureole, golden flaming sword in his right arm, and silver oval
shield.
The coat of arms is placed on the golden Baroque cartouche topped
with golden three-prong city crown.
The image of the smaller emblem is similar to the coat of arms of
the larger emblem.
The emblem is based on the images of city emblems of 1672 and
1782.
Kyiv's flag should be blue orthogonal cloth with the aspect ratio
of 2:3 with the large emblem in the middle.
The height of the emblem on the flag should be 2:3 of the cloth's
width.
The images now should be endorsed by the Kyiv city council.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Kyiv city state
administration forecasts council will endorse the images of the
emblem and flag of the city by June 2009."that the Kyiv city
Ivan Sache, 25 March 2009
Note: an arbalest ("kusha") - ancient municipal symbol of Kyiv -
depicted on the shield. Image of new flag at kiyany.obozrevatel.com.
Victor Lomantsov, 26 March 2009
It is a project of a new flag. But finally we are waiting for
the adoption by Kyiv City Council.
Andriy Grechylo, 26 March 2009
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image from the site of Ukrainian
Heraldry
From the site of Ukrainian
Heraldry:
"In May 1995 town council session of Kyiv confirmed a new
resolution of giving the historical Coat of Arms with the picture
of archangel Michael back to the city."
Phil Nelson, 7 July 1999
From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"City in Kyiv Oblast. It is situated on the banks of the
Dnipro. According to a legend Kyiv was founded by three brothers
Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv and their sister Lybid more than 15
centuries ago. The town had been the political center of Kyiv
Rus'. The blossoming forth of Kyiv was during the ruling of the
prince Volodymyr Sviatoslavovych and Yaroslav Mudry.The baptism
of Ukraine began in Kyiv. In the X - XII centuries Kyiv was one
of the biggest cities in Europe. In nearly 1362 Kyivsky land
became part of Great Lithuanian principality. In 1494 Kyiv was
given the Magdeburg Right. Since 1648 it was a center of Kyiv
regiment. In 1918 Kyiv was occupied by Moscow troops. On the 24th
of August 1991 in Kyiv the Supreme Rada proclaimed the
independence of Ukraine. The first symbols of the capital of
Ukraine appeared still in the days of Kyiv Rus' . The picture of
archangel Michael considered to be the Protector of fighting men
is connected with the cult of the warrior angel. In the days of
Volodymyr Olgerdovych the picture of archangel Michael was not
used. But after 1471 in the emblem of Kyivs'ke principality
started to appear again. Since the XVI century the white angel
nimbed in gules field became the official symbol of Kyivs'ke principality. With having the Magdeburg Right an arm with a
crossbow appeared on a Magistrate seal. On flags of the Cossacks
regiments during the war of 1648-1654 there was a picture of
Michael piercing a dragon with a spear. The picture of Michael
appeared also in the emblems of Gadiach, Krolevets and
Ovruch."
Phil Nelson, 7 July 1999
My ancient encyclopedia says, under the heading
"Magdeburg", "Magdeburg became a flourishing
commercial town during the 13th century, and was an important
member of the Hanseatic League..."Magdeburg law"
(Magdeburger Recht), securing the administrative independence of
municipalities, was widely adopted." Perhaps where the
source says "was given Magdeburg right" we should
translate "received the right of civic self-government"
or something similar
John Ayer, 8 July 1999
Images or descriptions of flags of ancient Kiev were not
saved. Some historians think, that the red flags with a white or
yellow trident were used in Kiev. But their hypotheses are
confirmed by nothing.
Ukrainian nationalists consider that the flags of Vladimir were
blue-yellow. But in fact this B-Y flag has appeared only in 1848.
Flags with three tails were drawn on ancient coins (X c.).
Vladimir has lead violently christening of Kiev Rus. Therefore it
is possible the religious plots were represented on the flags
Victor Lomantsov, 3 March 2002
It is impossible to speak about flags in Russia earlier than
since 1685, when Zar Peter I adopted the first Russian flag -
white - red - blue. In Annalistic Codex of Zar Ivan I (The
Terrible) from XV C. the images of banners ostensibly 12
centuries - red with a narrow strip lengthways staff are given,
but it can be mystification.
Michail Revnivtsev, 5 March 2002
During soviet times, Kyiv had 14 administrative districts
(rayons) with such names as: Leninskyi rayon, Minskyi rayon,
Moskovskyi rayon etc. A few years ago a new law about the Capital
of Ukraine was adopted and Kyiv received 10 new rayons, new
borders, new names.
Andriy Grechylo, 28 July 2004
image located by Randy Young, 6 June 2022
Doing some research on a different flag this afternoon, I came across the
flag of Kyiv Pride. This flag can be seen in several photographs online,
including at
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https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/kyiv-ukraine-0919-pride-parade-participants-2061974912
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https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-thousands-march-for-lgbtq-rights/a-59232409
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https://img.the-village.com.ua/the-village.com.ua/post-cover/MMr12TCvEyai8XVmf1bogA-default.jpg
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https://gdb.rferl.org/06d52a9a-50e5-4b79-9419-a5a3b71e57a1_tv_w1200_r1.jpg
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https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRYCLVMPEVzpvtD5FRnjmQ0Rbqw7vfITxE5Wg&usqp=CAU
This flag uses as its base the standard six-stripe rainbow flag, with
the stripes being uneven, wide on one end and narrowing toward the opposite end.
Overlaid on top of the yellow and orange stripes is a white symbol that appears
to be a stylized megaphone and sound waves. Meanwhile, over the green and blue
stripes are the Cyrillic words "КИЇВ ПРАЙД" or "Kyiv Pride."
There are
other similar flags seen along with these Kyiv Pride rainbow flags, including
similar symbols and words on a plain white field (https://cdn.novyny.live/images/thumbnail/1366x570/v-kyeve-na-ulytsakh-prokhodyt-lhbt-prayd-yarkye-foto-s-19-sentyabrya.png).
Randy Young, 6 June 2022
It seems that the rainbow used on this flag is not even in the terms of the
traditional flag. If you see the image the organization used on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/kyivpride/photos/a.702088553234710/2358041567639392,
while the text is in English, the pattern used in this image and the flags are
the same in the terms of the design of the rainbows. For the various other flags
in this space, you can see the same treatment was given
https://www.facebook.com/kyivpride/photos/4385666694876859 (Non-Binary and
Transgender, from top to bottom). As for the font,
https://www.facebook.com/kyivpride/photos/a.702092149901017/1558278754282348
is the largest I could find since they seem to be using English text more than
Ukrainian (at least from what I saw).
Zachary Harden, 6 June 2022
