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Mordovia (Russia)

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Mordoviâ

Мордовия

image by Tomislav �ipek, 5 December 2019

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Mordovian flag and arms
reported by István Molnár, 04 Dec 2001
Mordovian flag
reported by Dov Gutterman, 18 Dec 1998

Presentation of Mordovia

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Name (English): Mordovia • (Russian, short form): Мордовия | Mordoviâ • (Russian, long form): Республика Мордовия | Respublika Mordoviâ
Local official languages: Erzian and Mokshian
Capital: Саранск | Saransk
Area: 26 200 km² (~10 100 sq.mi.) • Population: 920 300 inhabitants in 2000
Status: Republic (Республика | Respublika) within the Russian Federation
Federal District: Central Region • Economic region: Volga-Vyatka
License plate code: 13 • Ham radio code: MD • ISO 3166-2 code: MO
Flag adopted on 1995.03.30 • Coat of arms adopted on 1995.03.30

Not to be confused with the Moldavians, the Mordovians are, like the Mari, a Finno-Ugric people. A Mordovian ASSR was created in 1934.
Stuart Notholt, 05 Oct 1995

Description of the flag

It's always of interest to me the shade of "маренового", so finally I found on https://vk.com/topic-38050236_26375331?offset=0 some interesting description on RGB 179,18,53. This is the new flag which compares with the photos.
http://fedpress.ru/news/14/business/2160111
https://rmrail.ru/press/news/generalnyy-direktor-rm-reyl-obsudil-s-glavoy-mordovii-rabotu-vnov-otkryvsheysya-ploshchadki-v-saranske/
Tomislav �ipek, 5 December 2019

Flag 1995-2008

image by Tomislav �ipek, 5 December 2019

Constitutional act No. 98/I about flag of Republic of Mordovia was accepted 30.3.1995 in Saransk:

Flag of republic has three horizontal stripes of brown-red, white and dark blue (1:2:1). In the centre is brown-red sun symbol. Proportions of flag being 1:2.

Petr Exner, 30 Jan 1996

[See also the construction sheet from this law, sent by Petr Exner, 30 Jan 1996]

This flag, in medium blue, is listed under number 87 at the chart Flags of Aspirant Peoples [eba94] as: Mordovia (Mordovians) [Moksha] - Central Russia.».
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 1999

According to Jiri Tenora [jtn02], the sun symbol on the flag of Mordovia is divided into four parts symbolizing the four Mordovian tribes.
Ivan Sache, 18 Apr 2002

Four 1st level Russian subdivisions use dark red as a major color of its flags: Moscow City, Mordovia, Chuvashia and Mariy El.
António Martins, 08 Dec 2006

Coat of arms

image by Petr Exner, 30 Jan 1996

Constitutional act No. 92-I about coat of arms of Republic of Mordovia was accepted 30.3.1995 in Saransk:

In the centre of coat of arms is shield (brown-red, white, dark blue) with little shield of Saransk in its centre.

Petr Exner, 30 Jan 1996

Erzian ethnic flag

image by Marco Pribilla, 02 Feb 2002

In the number 2/2001 of Alkukoti I found an interesting map chart [alk01] with the living areas and flags of the different Finno-Ugric peoples. It shows a simple white-red-black triband for the Erza Mordovians (one of the two related Mordovian tribes; the other one is Moksha).
Marco Pribilla, 02 Feb 2002