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Adopted. 6 September 1991. The flag of Saint Petersburg, in the Russian Federation, is a red field charged in the centre with the arms of the city, which consists of two silver anchors (a fluked anchor, and a grapnel anchor ), and a gold scepter . The anchors both cross each other at their centers, with the sea anchor to the left and the river ...
- 6 September 1991
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Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As Russia's Imperial capital, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city . The city was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May 1703 on the site of ...
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(Note: You need a Unicode-aware software and font to correctly view the Cyrillic text on this page. See heretransliteration details). 1. Name (English): Saint Petersburg City • (Russian, short form): Санкт-Петербург | Sankt-Petersburg • (Russian, long form): Город Федерального Подчинения Санкт-Петербург | Gorod Federalhnogo Podĉineniâ Sankt-Peterbu...
The background is red (krasnyĭ), and notdark red (purpurnyĭ). Michael Simakov, 11 Jan 2000 Ratio 3:2 The Regulation on the Flag was adopted on 8, June, 1992 by City Council (decision No96). Article 2: These are two different types of anchors — triple forriver, and other for sea. There were placed on coat ofarms because St. Petersburg has sea and ri...
Armorial banner
image by Krystof Huk, 9 August 2016 While staying in St. Petersburg, I got my hands on a red banner, embroidered with the greater arms of the city. The seller wasn't able to tell me what the flag is, nor have I been able to find it anywhere else. Does anybody have any idea what it is? Kryštof Huk, 9 August 2016 This is an unofficial flag made by flag-makers. You can buy several types of city flag in St-P. - red, white-blue-red with coat of arms, black-yellow-white with coat of arms. But the r...
Smaller components
image by Tomislav Šipek, 7 April 2020
Widespread but incorrect image of the flag
This image was originally made by me. In 1995 I did an article on St. Petersburg flag for Spanish Gaceta de Banderas [ban]. I had no photos of the flag or its detailed images. I only saw this flag on TV. I sent to editor of Gaceta the description of the flag without the good image. But there was a very rough sketch of the flag in my letter (I was sure, the sketch is too bad for publishing). Editor of Gaceta published this sketch in No 18. Then I decided to reconstruct the image. The reconstru...
image byTomislav Todorović, 26 December 2015 Rainbow flag with red at the top and violet at the bottom, violet stripe extending upwards in form of several landmarks of Saint Petersburg, is presented atWikimedia Commons since 2007. Photos of the flag in real use can be foundhere (image) andhere (image). These photos are dated after the creation of t...
Apr 5, 2024 · St. Petersburg, city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. It is a major historical and cultural center, as well as Russia’s second largest city. For two centuries (1712–1918) it was the capital of the Russian Empire. Its historic district was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1990.
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Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of roughly 5.6 million residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in ...
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