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The Chuvashian flag is often depicted yellow with violet or
brown stripes and ornaments.
António Martins, 21 Nov 1996
In the web of the President of Chuvaquia, in
www.cap.ru I see the
flag of Chuvaquia, and it is clearly red and yellow,
not purple.
Jordi Pérez, 21 Oct 1997
I had the chance of visit Chuvashia in 1996 and I
can confirm that those are the coulors used, and not
brown, marroon, buff or violet, as often stated.
In all Cheboksary public buildings and souvenir
stores all one can see is red stripes and
“Tree of Life” and 3 8-pointed stars in red,
pure, normal, average "R"-red,
on a yellow background.
“Normal” locals — i.e., non-vexillologists, hadn't
ever heard about any other color.
António Martins, 21 Nov 1996
Article 2 of these
Regulations gives the description of the state
flag as follows: «2. The National flag
of the Chuvash Republic is a rectangular panel with the
ratio of sides 5:8, divided horizontally with yellow
above and purple below.»
Jos Poels, 21 Nov 1996
If every non-Russian vexillologist depicts the Chuvashian flag as purple, if even the Chuvash flag law state it is "purple", how come all the flags in Chuvashia are red?...
The official law was published by the republic grovernment in a nice trilingual color booklet in chuvash, russian and english [pvu95]: The National Emblem of the Chuvash Republic. The title mistake ("emblem" instead of "symbols") should warn us about the translation quality of this book, but...
Anyway, the (unofficial?) introductory text (page 4) reads:
And, on page 19, a quote from the official bilingual (chuvash and russian) text (approved 1992.04.29) along with an english version states: