Flag of Mordovia explained

Mordovia
Proportion:2:3
Adoption:20 May 2008
Design:A horizontal tricolor of red, white and blue with an eight-pointed red cross.
Designer:Andrey Alyoshkin
Imagetext2:Flag of Mordovia (1990-1995)
Design2:A variant of the Russian SFSR flag with "Mordovian SSR" written in the Russian, Erzyan, and Mokshan languages respectively.
Proportion2:1:2
Adoption2:1990

The flag of Mordovia, in the Russian Federation, is a horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue. It is charged with a brown-red sun emblem in the center of the white strip. The emblem is divide into four parts, symbolizing the four Mordvin tribes. Its proportions are 1:2:1.

The flag was adopted on 20 May 2008. The proportions are 2:3.

Historical flags

FlagYears of useRatioGovernmentNotes
1883-19132:3Krasnoslobodsky Uyezd
1914-19172:3Mordovian Governorate
1918-19341:2Mordovian Autonomous Oblast
1934–19371:2Mordovian ASSR
1937–19541:2Mordovian ASSR
1954–19901:2
1990–19951:2Mordovian SSR (1990–1991)
Mordovia (1991–1995)
1995–20081:2Mordovia
2008–Present2:3Mordovia

Other

FlagYears of useRatioDescriptionNotes
Unknown 2:3Alternative Mordovian flag with an elongated solar symbol.
1:2Ethnic flag of the Erzya people.
1:2Ethnic flag of the Moksha people.

See also