Russia Flag

The flag of Russia was officially adopted on the 21st August 1991, just before the Russian became a free state and member of the United Nations on December 26, 1991. The history of the old flag of Russia has been however long traced back to the time of when Peter the great made a visit to the Netherlands in the year 1699. It is said that Peter the great went to the Netherlands in order to learn the art of ship building and it was the time that he realized that Russia also need to have its own Naval Flag. He thought that since they were into the ship making processes so the Flag of Russia should be made and used to represent their trade. Peter the great designed the flag of Russia but the design was similar to the flag of the Netherlands, but with Russian colors. The flag that Peter the great designed was officially designed for the Russian Maritime flags and was to be used for merchant ships that was in the year1799 and that flag design was then used and adopted as the civil flag in the year 1883. After the Russian revolution in the year 1917 the flags design was replaced with one that had yellow emblem on it. Russia then became a member of the USSR that is the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union collapsed in the year 1991 and the Russian Flag was then re-adopted.

The description of the flag of Russia is very simple if anyone was to ask that what the colors of the current flag of Russia are it is a simple answer: three colors are present and those are white, blue and red. The first most stripes is the color white; the second stripe in the flag of Russia is blue in color and the last and final stripe in the Russian flag is Red color. As mentioned earlier that Peter the great had designed the Russian Flag to look like the flag of the Netherlands and since then the Russian Flag is said to have inspired the designs of many of the Slavic Flags of that time and the colors red, blue and white have often come to known as pan-Slavic colors they have also been used to represent Slavic independence and Unity. The white color is said to symbolize generosity and frankness, the blue color is said to stand for and represent loyalty, honesty and wisdom and the red is said to be a symbol of courage, magnanimity and love. It is also common belief the red symbolizes Russians, that the blue represents Ukrainians and that the white represents the Belo Russian people. The proportions of the flag of Russia are those which hold very simple dimensions if anyone was to ask this question it would be a simple answer that the Russian Flag is like the rest of the flags having simple proportion which have the following ratios that is 2:3 respectively.