Flag of Russia, the Glossary

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1. 128 relations: Abraham Storck, Alexander II of Russia, Alexander III of Russia, Alexis of Russia, All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Museum, Andrew the Apostle, Andrey Vlasov, Anti-communism, Arkhangelsk, Azov campaigns (1695–1696), Azov Flotilla, Battle of Narva (1700), Black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire, Blue, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cambridge University Press, Canton (flag), Central Naval Museum, Civil ensign, Civil flag, CMYK color model, Coat of arms of Moscow, Coat of arms of Russia, Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union, Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Cornell University Press, Council of People's Commissars, Cyrillic script, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Samokvasov, Double-headed eagle, Dutch East India Company, Dutch Republic, Edition (book), Emoji, February Revolution, Federal subjects of Russia, Flag of Bulgaria, Flag of Colombia, Flag of Dagestan, Flag of Serbia, Flag of Slovakia, Flag of Slovenia, Flag of the Netherlands, Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Flag of the Russian-American Company, ... Expand index (78 more) »

2. Flags of Russia
3. National symbols of Russia

Abraham Storck

Abraham Storck (or Sturckenburch; bapt. 17 April 1644 in Amsterdam – buried 8 April 1708) was a Dutch painter, who enjoyed a reputation for his marine paintings, topographical views and Italianate harbour scenes.

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Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (p; 29 April 181813 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881.

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Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III (r; 10 March 18451 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894.

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Alexis of Russia

Alexei Mikhailovich (Алексей Михайлович,; –), also known as Alexis, was Tsar of all Russia from 1645 until his death in 1676.

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All-Russian Central Executive Committee

The All-Russian Central Executive Committee (translit) was (June – November 1917) a permanent body formed by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (held from June 16 to July 7, 1917 in Petrograd), then became the supreme governing body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in between sessions of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets from 1917 to 1937.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Amsterdam Museum

The Amsterdam Museum, known until 2010 as the Amsterdam Historical Museum, is an Amsterdam-based museum dedicated to the city's past and present.

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Andrew the Apostle

Andrew the Apostle (Andréas; Andreas; אַנדּרֵאוָס; ʾAnd'raʾwās), also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus.

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Andrey Vlasov

Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov (Андрей Андреевич Власов, – 1 August 1946) was a Soviet Red Army general and collaborator with Germany.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk (Арха́нгельск), also known as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

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Azov campaigns (1695–1696)

The Azov campaigns of 1695–1696 (Азо́вские похо́ды, Azovskiye Pokhody), were two Russian military campaigns during the Russo-Turkish War of 1686–1700, led by Peter the Great and aimed at capturing the Turkish fortress of Azov (garrison – 7,000 men) with the aim of controlling the southern mouth of the Don River gaining access to the Sea of Azov and entrance to the Black Sea.

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Azov Flotilla

The Azov Flotilla or Azov Naval Flotilla was the name given to several Russian naval forces operated on the Sea of Azov as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, by both the Soviets and the White Russians during the Russian Civil War, and as part of the Soviet Navy during World War II.

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Battle of Narva (1700)

The Battle of Narva (Slaget vid Narva) on (20 November in the Swedish transitional calendar) was an early battle in the Great Northern War.

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Black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire

The Flag of the Russian Empire or Black-yellow-white flag was the official flag of the Russian Empire from 11 June 1858 to 29 April 1896, when Emperor Nicholas II declared the white-blue-red flag national, but the black-yellow-white flag was not officially abolished. Flag of Russia and black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire are flags of Russia.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин,; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999.

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The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR or Byelorussian SSR; Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка; Белорусская Советская Социалистическая Республика), also known as Byelorussia, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Canton (flag)

In vexillography, the canton is a rectangular emblem placed at the top left of a flag, usually occupying up to a quarter of a flag's area.

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Central Naval Museum

Central Naval Museum (Центральный военно-морской музей) is a naval museum in St Petersburg, Russia, reflecting the development of Russian naval traditions and the history of the Russian Navy.

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Civil ensign

A civil ensign is an ensign (maritime flag) used by civilian vessels to denote their nationality.

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Civil flag

A civil flag is a version of the national flag that is flown by civilians on nongovernmental installations or craft.

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CMYK color model

The CMYK color model (also known as process color, or four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.

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Coat of arms of Moscow

The coat of arms of Moscow depicts a horseman with a spear in his hand slaying a basilisk and is identified with Saint George and the Dragon.

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Coat of arms of Russia

The coat of arms of Russia derives from the earlier coat of arms of the Russian Empire. Flag of Russia and coat of arms of Russia are national symbols of Russia.

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Collaboration in the German-occupied Soviet Union

A large number of Soviet citizens of various ethnicities collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF) is a communist political party in Russia that officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist philosophy.

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Cornell University Press

The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage.

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Council of People's Commissars

The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (Sovet narodnykh kommissarov (SNK)), commonly known as the Sovnarkom (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the Soviet Union (USSR), and the Soviet republics from 1917 to 1946.

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Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Dmitry Samokvasov

Dmitry Yakovlevich Samokvasov (Дмитрий Яковлевич Самоквасов; 1843 — 1911) was a Russian archaeologist and legal historian who excavated the Black Grave in Chernigov and several other sites important for the history of Kievan Rus.

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Double-headed eagle

The double-headed eagle is an iconographic symbol originating in the Bronze Age. Flag of Russia and double-headed eagle are national symbols of Russia.

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Dutch East India Company

The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.

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Dutch Republic

The United Provinces of the Netherlands, officially the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) and commonly referred to in historiography as the Dutch Republic, was a confederation that existed from 1579 until the Batavian Revolution in 1795.

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Edition (book)

The bibliographical definition of an edition is all copies of a book printed from substantially the same setting of type, including all minor typographical variants.

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Emoji

An emoji (plural emoji or emojis; 絵文字) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.

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February Revolution

The February Revolution (Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.

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Federal subjects of Russia

The federal subjects of Russia, also referred to as the subjects of the Russian Federation (subyekty Rossiyskoy Federatsii) or simply as the subjects of the federation (subyekty federatsii), are the constituent entities of Russia, its top-level political divisions.

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Flag of Bulgaria

The flag of Bulgaria (zname na Bǎlgariya) is a tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. Flag of Russia and flag of Bulgaria are national flags.

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Flag of Colombia

The national flag of Colombia symbolizes that Colombia gained its independence from Spain on 20 July 1810. Flag of Russia and flag of Colombia are national flags.

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Flag of Dagestan

The flag of the Republic of Dagestan (Флаг Дагестана; Дагъистаналъул байрахъ; italics; Дагъустандин тӀаратӀ; Дагъыстаны байракъ) was adopted after the transformation of the Dagestan ASSR into the Republic of Dagestan within the Russian Federation.

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Flag of Serbia

The flag of Serbia (zastava Srbije), also known as the Tricolour (trobojka), is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands, red on the top, blue in the middle, and white on the bottom (on civil flag), with the lesser coat of arms left of center (on state flag). Flag of Russia and flag of Serbia are national flags.

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Flag of Slovakia

The current form of the national flag of the Slovak Republic (Vlajka Slovenskej republiky) was adopted by Slovakia's Constitution, which came into force on 3 September 1992. Flag of Russia and flag of Slovakia are national flags.

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Flag of Slovenia

The national flag of Slovenia (zastava Slovenije) features three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue, and red, with the coat of arms of Slovenia located in the upper hoist side of the flag centred in the white and blue bands. Flag of Russia and flag of Slovenia are national flags.

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Flag of the Netherlands

The national flag of the Netherlands (de Nederlandse vlag) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. Flag of Russia and flag of the Netherlands are national flags.

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The penultimate USSR-era flag was adopted by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in 1954 and used until 1991. Flag of Russia and flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic are flags of Russia and national symbols of Russia.

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Flag of the Russian-American Company

The flag of the Russian-American Company, first adopted in 1806, consisted of a variation of the horizontal white-blue-red tricolor of the flag of Russia, but with the white stripe broader than the other two, and containing a double-headed eagle symbol of the company. Flag of Russia and flag of the Russian-American Company are flags of Russia.

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Flag of the Soviet Union

The State Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or simply the Soviet flag, was a red banner with two communist symbols displayed in the canton: a gold hammer and sickle topped off by a red five-point star bordered in gold.

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Flag of Transnistria

Transnistria is a region in Eastern Europe that is under the effective control of the Russian-backed Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic but is recognized by the international community as an administrative unit of Moldova, the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester.

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Flags of Asia

This is a list of international, national and subnational flags used in Asia.

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Flags of the federal subjects of Russia

This gallery of flags of federal subjects of Russia shows the flags of the 89 federal subjects of Russia including 2 regions that, while being de facto under complete Russian control, are not internationally recognized as part of Russia (Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol), and 4 regions that, while not being fully controlled by Russia or recognised internationally, are claimed by it as its federal subjects (Donetsk and Luhansk republics, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts). Flag of Russia and flags of the federal subjects of Russia are flags of Russia.

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Flags of the World (website)

Flags of the World (abbreviated FOTW or FotW) is an Internet-based vexillological association and resource.

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Great Russia

Great Russia, sometimes Great Rus' (Великая Русь, Velikaya Rus', Великая Россия, Velikaya Rossiya, Великороссия, Velikorossiya), is a name formerly applied to the territories of "Russia proper", the land that formed the core of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia.

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Hammer and sickle

The hammer and sickle (Unicode) is a communist symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers. Flag of Russia and hammer and sickle are national symbols of Russia.

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Hatching (heraldry)

Hatching (sometimes called hachure, from the French word) is a conventional system for monochrome denotation of heraldic armory, whereby the tinctures (colours) are represented by dots and lines.

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IJ (Amsterdam)

The IJ (sometimes shown on old maps as Y or Ye) is a body of water, formerly a bay, in the Dutch province of North Holland.

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Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible

The Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible (Litsevoy letopisny svod) is the largest compilation of historical information ever assembled in medieval Russia.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 –), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.

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Jerusalem cross

The Jerusalem cross (also known as "five-fold Cross", or "cross-and-crosslets") is a heraldic cross and Christian cross variant consisting of a large cross potent surrounded by four smaller Greek crosses, one in each quadrant.

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Kremlin Armoury

The Kremlin ArmouryOfficially called the "Armoury Chamber" but also known as the cannon yard, the "Armoury Palace", the "Moscow Armoury", the "Armoury Museum", and the "Moscow Armoury Museum" but different from the Kremlin Arsenal.

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Kronstadt

Kronstadt (Kronshtadt) is a Russian port city in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of Saint Petersburg, located on Kotlin Island, west of Saint Petersburg, near the head of the Gulf of Finland.

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Kulak

Kulak (a; plural: кулаки́, kulakí, 'fist' or 'tight-fisted'), also kurkul or golchomag (plural), was the term which was used to describe peasants who owned over of land towards the end of the Russian Empire.

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List of Russian flags

The nation of Russia has designed and used various flags throughout history. Flag of Russia and List of Russian flags are flags of Russia.

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List of wars between Russia and Sweden

This is a list of wars between Russia, Sweden and their predecessor states.

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Little Russia

Little Russia (Malorossiya; Malorosiia), also known in English as Malorussia, Little Rus' (Malaya Rus; translit), Rus' Minor (from translit), and the French equivalent Petite Russie, is a geographical and historical term used to describe Ukraine.

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Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire

The Ministry of Justice was one of the Russian Empire's central public institutions and was established on 8 September 1802.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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National colours

National colours are frequently part of a country's set of national symbols.

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Nicholas II

Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.

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Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Pan-Slavic colors

The pan-Slavic colors—blue, white and red—were defined by the Prague Slavic Congress, 1848, based on the symbolism of the colors of the flag of Russia, which was introduced in the late 17th century.

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Pantone

Pantone LLC (stylized as PANTONE) is an American limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, and best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphic design, fashion design, product design, printing, and manufacturing and supporting the management of color from design to production, in physical and digital formats, among coated and uncoated materials, cotton, polyester, nylon and plastics.

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People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR

The People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Russian SFSR (Народный Коммиссариат ИностранныхДел РСФСР: Narodnyi Komissariat Inostrannykh Del – abbreviated to Narkomindel or NKID) was the central executive state body of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic responsible for conducting the foreign policy and foreign relations of the Soviet state in 1917-1923 and in 1944–1946.

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Peter the Great

Peter I (–), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725.

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Prague Slavic Congress, 1848

The Prague Slavic Congress of 1848 (Slovanský sjezd) took place in Prague, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) between 2 June and 12 June 1848.

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President of Russia

The president of the Russian Federation (Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the executive head of state of Russia.

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Pushkin Museum

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Музей изобразительныхискусств имени А., abbreviated as) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow.

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RAL colour standard

RAL is a colour management system used in Europe that is created and administered by the German (RAL non-profit LLC), which is a subsidiary of the German.

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Red

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

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Red flag (politics)

In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of left-wing ideologies, including socialism, communism, anarchism, and the labour movement.

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RGB color model

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.

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Riddarholmen Church

Riddarholmen Church (Riddarholmskyrkan) is the church of the former medieval Greyfriars Monastery in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Royal Library of the Netherlands

The Royal Library of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek or KB; Royal Library) is the national library of the Netherlands, based in The Hague, founded in 1798.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian frigate Oryol (1668)

Oryol (Орёл, eagle; also Orel) was a frigate that served in the Russian Navy.

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Russian Liberation Army

The Russian Liberation Army (Russische Befreiungsarmee; Русская освободительная армия, Russkaya osvoboditel'naya armiya, abbreviated as РОА, ROA, also known as the Vlasov army (Власовская армия, Vlasovskaya armiya) was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II.

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Russian Provisional Government

The Russian Provisional Government was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II, during the February Revolution.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Russian State Library

The Russian State Library (Rossiyskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka) is one of the three national libraries of Russia, located in Moscow.

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Russian-American Company

The Russian-American Company Under the High Patronage of His Imperial Majesty was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company.

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Russians

Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Saltire

A saltire, also called Saint Andrew's Cross or the crux decussata, is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross.

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Sergey Chekhonin

Sergey Vasil'evich Tchehonine (Chekhonin) (born in Valdayka, Novgorod province, 2 February 1878; died on the way from Germany to Paris, 23 February 1936) was a Russian graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist, and illustrator.

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Sitka, Alaska

Sitka (Sheetʼká; Ситка) is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska.

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Slovakia

Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.

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Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia

Sophia Alekseyevna (p) was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Stern

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (Transcaucasian SFSR or TSFSR), also known as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, or simply Transcaucasia, was a republic of the Soviet Union that existed from 1922 to 1936.

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Triband (flag)

A triband is a vexillological style which consists of three stripes arranged to form a flag.

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Tsar

Tsar (also spelled czar, tzar, or csar; tsar; tsar'; car) is a title historically used by Slavic monarchs.

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Tsardom of Russia

The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.

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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.

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Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.

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Web colors

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web; they can be described by way of three methods: a color may be specified as an RGB triplet, in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to its common English name in some cases.

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White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue).

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White émigré

White Russian émigrés were Russians who emigrated from the territory of the former Russian Empire in the wake of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and who were in opposition to the revolutionary Bolshevik communist Russian political climate.

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White movement

The White movement (p), also known as the Whites (Бѣлые / Белые, Beliye), was a loose confederation of anti-communist forces that fought the communist Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, in the Russian Civil War and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders in Siberia until roughly World War II (1939–1945).

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White Ruthenia

White Ruthenia (Biełaja Ruś; Ruś Biała; Belaya Rus'; Bila Ruś) is one of the historical divisions of Kievan Rus' according to the color scheme, which also includes Black and Red Ruthenia.

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White Sea

The White Sea (Beloye more; Karelian and lit; Serako yam) is a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia.

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White-blue-white flag

The white-blue-white flag is a symbol of opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine that has been used by Russian anti-war protesters. Flag of Russia and white-blue-white flag are flags of Russia.

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Workers of the world, unite!

The political slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" is one of the rallying cries from The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch!, literally, but soon popularised in English as "Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!").

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yemelyan Ukraintsev

Yemelyan Ignatievich Ukraintsev (September 12 or 23, 1641–1708) was a Russian diplomat and statesman.

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1991 Soviet coup attempt

The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the CPSU at the time.

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1993 Russian constitutional crisis

In September and October 1993, a constitutional crisis arose in the Russian Federation from a conflict between the then Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the country's parliament.

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See also

Flags of Russia

• Black-yellow-white flag of the Russian Empire
• Ensign of the Russian Navy
• Flag of Amur Oblast
• Flag of Chelyabinsk Oblast
• Flag of Kuban
• Flag of Novgorod Oblast
• Flag of Prussia
• Flag of Russia
• Flag of Saratov Oblast
• Flag of Siberia
• Flag of the Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus
• Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
• Flag of the Russian-American Company
• Flags of the federal subjects of Russia
• Flags used in Russian-occupied Ukraine
• Hanseatic flags
• List of Russian flags
• White-blue-white flag

National symbols of Russia

• Awards and emblems of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
• Awards of the Ministry for Emergency Situations of Russia
• Awards of the National Guard of the Russian Federation
• Borscht
• Bread and salt
• Brown bear
• Coat of arms of Russia
• Double-headed eagle
• Flag of Russia
• Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
• Flags of Russia
• Hammer and sickle
• Imperial crown of Russia
• Monomakh's Cap
• National anthem of Russia
• National symbols of Russia
• Personification of Russia
• Red star
• Regalia of the Russian tsars
• Ribbon of Saint George
• Russian Bear
• Russian Orthodox cross
• Russian cross (religion)
• Russian heraldry
• Strength is in truth
• Triple-headed eagle
• Victory Banner (Soviet Union)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Russia

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