Flag of Dagestan explained

Dagestan
Use:110000
Proportion:2:3[1]
Adoption:26 February 1994 (original), 19 November 2003 (modified)
Design:A horizontal tricolor of green, blue, and red.
Designer:Abdulvagab C. Muratchayev
Type:National

The flag of the Republic of Dagestan (Russian: Флаг Дагестана; Avaric: Дагъистаналъул байрахъ; Azerbaijani: Дағыстан бајрағы|Dağıstan bayrağı|italics=no; Lezghian: Дагъустандин тӀаратӀ; Kumyk: Дагъыстаны байракъ) was adopted after the transformation of the Dagestan ASSR into the Republic of Dagestan within the Russian Federation. The flag was formally adopted on 26 February 1994.[2] It features a horizontal tricolor of green (for Islam),[3] blue (for the Caspian Sea), and red (for courage and fidelity). On 19 November 2003 the proportion of the flag was changed from the original 1:2 to 2:3, and the middle stripe from light blue to blue.

Colours scheme

The official colours scheme was declared in 19 November 2003.[4]


Colors scheme
GreenBlueRed
100-0-50-42 100-66-0-35 0-80-86-16
HEX
  1. 009349
  1. 0039A6
  1. D52B1E
RGB0-147-730-57-166213-43-30

Historical flags

Following its formation from parts of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus in 1921, the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic had several flags of the standard ASSR, first red flags defaced with the initials of the ASSR name (i.e. "Russian: ДАССР") and then a RSFSR flag defaced with the same. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Dagestan dropped the Russian: А (for Russian: Автономная, "autonomous") from its flag and the inscription read simply "Russian: ДССР".[5] A flag with horizontal blue and yellow stripes may have been used briefly in 1993 and 1994 until a variation of the current horizontal tricolor was adopted in 1994.[5]

!Flag!Date!Use!Description
19th-centuryFlag of the 19th-century Caucasian Imamate (Imamate of Dagestan)
1917–1920Flag of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus
1925–1927Flag of the Dagestan ASSR
1927–1954Flag of the Dagestan ASSR
1954–1991Flag of the Dagestan ASSR
1991–1994Flag of Dagestan SSR (1991) and the Republic of Dagestan
1994–2003Flag of DagestanA horizonatal tricolor of green, blue and red.

Other flags

Several peoples in Dagestan have devised their own ethnic flags:

!Flag!Date!Use!Description
?–PresentFlag of the Avar people of Dagestan
?–PresentFlag of the Aghul people of Dagestan
?–PresentFlag of the Kumyk people of Dagestan
?–PresentFlag of the Lak people of Dagestan
?–PresentFlag of the Nogai people of Dagestan
?–PresentFlag of the Lezgin people of Dagestan
?–PresentFlag of the Rutul People (Rutulians) of DagestanA horizontal tricolor of green-white-green, with a green crecent and star on the middle.
?–PresentFlag of the Tabasaran people of Dagestan
?–Present

Gallery

!Flag!Date!Use!Description
2004–PresentStandard of the head of DagestanA horizonatal tricolor of green, blue and red, with the coat of arms of Dagestan on the middle.
2022Flag of the independent DagestanA horizontal tricolor of green-white-green, with a green crecent and star slightly on the left.
2022Flag used by anti-mobilization protesters in DagestanA horizontal tricolor of white-green-white.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Народное Собрание Республики Дагестан . Закон . 27 . 19 ноября 2003 г. . О государственном флаге Республики Дагестан . http://geraldika.ru/symbols/16440 . Закона . 23 . 4 апреля 2006 г . People's Assembly of the Republic of Dagestan . Law . 27 . November 19, 2003 . On the State Flag of the Republic of Dagestan . Law . 23 . April 4, 2006.
  2. Верховный Совет Республики Дагестан. Постановление. 26 февраля 1994 г.. О государственном флаге Республики Дагестан. Supreme Council of the Republic of Dagestan. Resolution. February 26, 1994. On the State Flag of the Republic of Dagestan.
  3. The World Encyclopedia of Flags, Alfred Znamierowski (pub. Hermes House, 2002), p. 160
  4. Web site: Символика . 2021-10-11 . 2021-10-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211005072426/http://president.e-dag.ru/respublika/2013-03-24-22-53-33 . dead .
  5. Flags of the World. Dagestan on Flags of the World. 1999–2001. 2008-12-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20081021133125/http://flagspot.net/flags/ru-da.html. 2008-10-21. dead.