Kemerovo Region (Russia)

Kemerovskaa^ oblasth

Last modified: 2005-06-25 by antonio martins
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• Presentation of Kemerovo Region
• Description of the flag
• Coat of arms detail
• Kuzbas flag proposal?

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• Animated coat of arms of Novokuznetsk,
  reported by Dov Gotterman, 19 Dec 1998
• Yorga city coat of arms,
  reported by Dov Gotterman, 19 Dec 1998
• Unknown flag #1,
  reported by Dov Gotterman, 19 Dec 1998

Presentation of Kemerovo Region

(Note: You need an Unicode-aware software and font to correctely view the cyrillic text on this page. See here transliteration details).

• Name (english): Kemerovo Region • (russian): Кемеровская область | Kemerovskaâ oblasth
  
• Capital: Кемерово | Kemerovo • (former name): Ŝelkov | Шелков (<1932)
• Area: 95 500 km² (≅36 900 sq.mi.) • Population: 2 967 700 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Siberia • Economic region: West Siberia
• License plate code: 42 • Ham radio code: KE • ISO 3166-2 code: KEM
• Flag adopted on 2002.06.07 • Coat of arms adopted on 2002.06.07

Kemerovo Region is the homeland of the Shor people (S^orcy, in russian), one of the largest russian peoples without it's own republic or autonomous district.
António Martins, 18 Feb 1999

Description of the flag

At http://mega.kemerovo.su/WEB/HTML/36425.HTM there are images ob CoA and flag of Kemerovo oblast and, if I understand correctly, these symbols have been adopted 07.06.2002.
Pascal Gross, 07 Oct 2002

Flag is blue and red vertically (1:2), flag ratio 1:2.
Jan