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Stary Oskol city (Belgorod oblast, Russia)

Старый Оскол

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António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 July 2006
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A county-status city with about 217,000 inhabitants in 2004, founded in 1593 and important for its iron mines. More details. According to this page, reported by Valentin Poposki on 30 Sep 2005, this flag is still a project pending approval. It is based on the coat of arms: a 2:3 red over green flag divided in ascending diagonal with a rifle on the red area and golden thing on the green area. (An exact banner of arms except for the missing canton, filled in the coat of arms with the regional arms, as usual in Russian subnational banners of arms.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 1 July 2006

image located by William Garrison, 20 January 2025
Source: https://www.memri.org/jttm

The yellow device in the lower fly is a light wooden ard or plough (local name "sokha"). Here is a frontal view of it in use.
Victor Lomantsov, 20 January 2025