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Flag of the Irkutsk Oblast
Proportion2:3
Adopted25 July 1997
Design3 bands of blue, white, blue; within the white, a black, stylized tiger holding a sable in its mouth, surrounded by branches of cedar

The flag of the Irkutsk Oblast depicts three vertical stripes in the ratio 1:2:1: blue on the hoist and fly and white in the middle. Within the white strip, a stylized black tiger-beaver hybrid (the same depicted on the oblast's coat of arms, known as a heraldic babr) is seen holding a sable in its mouth. These two are surrounded by branches of cedar. The blue represents the waters of Lake Baikal, while white represents purity, goodness, and honesty. The green of the cedar branches represents hope, joy, and abundance.[1][2]

Origin of the babr

Initially, in Siberia, the word babr (бабр, derived from the Siberian Turkic borrowing of the word in Persian) signified a Siberian tiger, as opposed to the tigr (Russian: тигр) used in western Russia. It first appeared in the coat of arms of Yakutsk under the former, correct interpretation in 1642, later becoming the heraldic symbol of Irkutsk in 1690 after the transfer of the headquarters of the governors of Siberia.[3] However, officials in St. Petersburg were unaware of the word's meaning when modifying the coat of arms of Irkutsk in the late 1870s, and someone assumed it to be a misspelling of the Russian word bobr (бобр), meaning beaver. This then had to be reconciled with pre-existing heraldry depicting a tiger, resulting in a hybrid with the body and face of a tiger but the legs, feet, and tail of a beaver.[4] The error went unnoticed until 1997 when the coat of arms came up for review again, although due to its longstanding use under the erroneous definition, the current babr still more resembles it than the initial correct definition.

Other flags

Flag Date Use Description
?–present Flag of Irkutsk city
1 January 2008–present Flag of the Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug
18 September 1997–1 January 2008 Flag of the Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug
17 July 1997–18 September 1997
2007–present Flag of Bratsk
?–2007
?–present Flag of Zima
?–present Flag of Sayansk
?–present Flag of Svirsk
?–present Flag of Tulun
?–present Flag of Usolye-Sibirskoye
2010?–present Flag of Ust-Ilimsk
?–present Flag of Cheremkhovo
?–present Flag of Balagansky District A horizontal bicolor of gold and green, with a double-headed eagle on the top and 3 triangles in the bottom.
2004?–present Flag of Angarsky District
?–present Flag of Bratsky District
?–present Flag of Alarsky District
?–present Flag of Zhigalovsky District
?–present Flag of Bayandayevsky District
?–present Flag of Zalarinsky District
?–present Flag of Bokhansky District
?–present Flag of Ziminsky District
?–present Flag of Irkutsky District
?–present Flag of Katangsky District
?–present Flag of Kazachinsko-Lensky District
?–present Flag of Kachugsky District
?–present Flag of Kirensky District
?–present Flag of Kuytunsky District
?–present Flag of Mamsko-Chuysky District
?–present Flag of Nizhneilimsky District
?–present Flag of Nizhneudinsky District
?–present Flag of Nukutsky District
?–present Flag of Olkhonsky District
?–present Flag of Osinsky District
?–present Flag of Slyudyansky District
?–present Flag of Tayshetsky District
?–present Flag of Tulunsky District
?–present Flag of Usolsky District
?–present Flag of Ust-Ilimsky District
?–present Flag of Ust-Kutsky District
?–present Flag of Cheremkhovsky District
?–present Flag of Chunsky District
?–present Flag of Ekhirit-Bulagatsky District

References

  1. ^ Закон Иркутской области от 16.07.1997 № 30-ОЗ «О гербе и флаге Иркутской области», принят постановлением Законодательного собрания Иркутской области от 25.06.1997 № 11/2-ЗС, вступил в силу 20.09.1997
  2. ^ "Вексиллография: Флаг Иркутской области". Vexillographia. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2010-05-05.
  3. ^ П. П. фон-Винклер. (1899). Гербы городов, губерний, областей и посадов Российской Империи, внесенные в Полное Собрание законов с 1649 по 1900 год (Издание книготорговца Ив. Ив. Иванова не указаны экз ed.). СПб.: Типография И.М. Комелова, Пряжка д.3. ((cite book)): Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  4. ^ Оленин Р. М., Карманов В. В. (1999). История гербовой символики Приозерья. К 270-летию официального утверждения Корелъского и Кексголъмского гербов, созданных Франциско Санти. 1729 г.
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