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Sverdlovsk Region (Russia)
Sverdlovskaa^ oblasth
Last modified: 2005-05-07 by antónio martins
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by António Martins, Jul 1999
See also:
Other sites:
- Official
website, complete story about the coats of arms in use in the
region and about how the flag and the coat of arms of the oblast was
created (also in
english).
reported by Pascal Vagnat, 22 Oct 1997
- Coat
of arms of Ekaterinburg
Reported by Michael Simakov, 02 Mar 1999
Presentation of Sverdlovsk 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): Sverdlovsk Region • (russian): Сведловская область | Sverdlovskaâ oblasth
- Capital: Екатеринбург | Ekaterinburg • (former name): Sverdlovsk | Сведловск (1924-1991)
- Area: 194 800 km2 (≅75 200 sq.mi.) • Population: 4 582 400 inhabitants in 2000
- Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
- Federal District: Ural • Economic region: Ural
- License plate code: 66 (in the soviet era: СВ | SV) • Ham radio code: SV • ISO 3166-2 code: SVE
- Flag adopted on 1997.04.04 • Coat of arms adopted on 1997.04.04
I want to note: the same case with Sverdlovsk Region with capital
Ekaterinburg (from 1924 till 1991 - Sverdlovsk,
in honour of one from
bolshevist leader Iakov Sverdlov, chairman of All-Russian Central
Executive Comittee).
Andrey Jashlavwskij, 19 Jan 1999
Description of the flag
The official proportions are 2:3. There
are four stripes; from top to bottom, white
(7/20), light blue (9/20), white (1/20), and
green (3/20). The full state arms are to be
placed on the flag, 3/20 below the top, but
it is permissible to make the flag without
the arms.
John Ayer, 02 Jan 1999
Though used since 1997, this flag