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| Proportion | 1:2 |
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| Adopted | 24 September 1992 (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) 4 June 2014 (Republic of Crimea) |
| Design | A horizontal tricolor of a thin blue stripe, a large white stripe, and thin red stripe. |
| Designed by | A. Malgin and V. Trusov |
 Flag with original pre-2014 colours | |
Theflag of Crimea (Russian:Флаг Крыма,romanized: Flag Kryma;Ukrainian:Прапор Криму,romanized: Prapor Krymu;Crimean Tatar:Къырым байрагъы,romanized: Qırım bayrağı) is the flag of theAutonomous Republic of Crimea inUkraine and theRepublic of Crimea controlled byRussia.[nb 1] The flag was officially adopted on 24 September 1992[1] as the flag of theRepublic of Crimea, readopted on 21 April 1999,[2] then readopted on 4 June 2014 as the flag of the Republic of Crimea, annexed by the Russian Federation.
The flag is atriband, striped horizontally in blue–white–red. The blue stripe is located at the top edge and is 1/6 of the flag's width. The white stripe is the largest of the three and is 2/3 of the flag's width, and the red stripe is located at the bottom edge and is 1/6 of the flag's width.
When flown vertically, the flag's blue stripe should be at the left, the white field in the centre, and the red stripe on the right. The flag's length is twice its width.
After thedissolution of the Soviet Union, many designs were used by separatists from Crimea.[3] The most commonly used design in public was a white flag with a blue outline map of Crimea, reminiscent of theflag of Cyprus. However, manySupreme Council of Crimea members had supported the version of a white flag with sevenrainbow colors at the top.[4] Crimea proclaimed self-government on 5 May 1992,[5] but no official flag was chosen.
On 5 June 1992, five proposals were submitted to theVerkhovna Rada of Crimea (Crimean Parliament):
Proposal 5, designed by V. Trusov and A. Malgin, was selected to be the flag of Crimea.[3] The coat of arms of G. Jefetov and V. Jagunov was recommended for display on the flag. The final design for the flag was submitted in the second session of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea on 24 September 1992. The flag was only officially adopted on 21 April 1999.
During the formation of the short-livedCrimean People's Republic of theCrimean Tatars in 1917, the flag used was a sky-blue flag with a goldentamğa, known as theKök Bayraq "Blue Banner". A green colored flag was used for religious purposes, and the red colored flag was used as the Tatar's military flag.[6] In 1991 the light blue version is now used asethnic flag of the Crimean Tatars.
Color scheme (Republic of Crimea) | Blue | White | Red |
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| CMYK | 100-38-0-30 | 0-0-0-0 | 0-85-89-14 |
| HEX | #2E2875 | #FFFFFF | #DA2922 |
| RGB | 46-40-117 | 255-255-255 | 218-41-34 |
Color scheme (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) | Sky Blue | White | Red |
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| CMYK | 100-38-0-30 | 0-0-0-0 | 0-85-89-14 |
| HEX | #006FB2 | #FFFFFF | #DB2017 |
| RGB | 0-111-178 | 255-255-255 | 219-32-23 |
In 1917, the Tatar nationalist groups began using a sky-blue flag as their symbol (the color of freedom). At the same time, the tamga symbol became widely used on the blue background. This became the flag of the short-livedCrimean People's Republic proclaimed in late 1917.[7] When the communistTaurida Soviet Socialist Republic took control of Crimea in the beginning of 1918, the Tatar flag was abolished in favour of a plain red flag.[7]
The short-livedCrimean Regional Government (Russian:Крымское краевое правительство), led by GeneralMaciej (Suleyman) Sulkiewicz (aLithuanian Tatar by origin), existed during the German occupation of Crimea (25 June–15 November 1918), in which the Crimean government proclaimed a self-rule. Sulkiewicz's government adopted a flag which seemed to be a compromise between Crimean Tatars and theRussians. It was a traditional Crimean Tatar blue-colored banner, but it had the coat of arms of the Russian Empire'sTaurida Governorate instead of the Crimean Tatar damğa.
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When theCrimean ASSR was established as part of theRussian SFSR on 18 October 1921, it received its own flag. The flag was red, and spelled in golden letters were the initials of the name of the republic: inCyrillic lettersКрССР, and in thelocal Arabic alphabetق س ش ج (Q.S.Ş.C.). The lettering on the flag was changed to includeКрАССР, andQrMSŞÇ in theUniform Turkic Alphabet in 1929 in order to indicate Crimea as anAutonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The flag was amended yet again in 1938 with the lettering CyrillicРСФСР at the top (for Russian SFSR) andКрАССР at the bottom. After Crimea was transformed into theCrimean Oblast (region) on 30 June 1945, its flag was abolished.[3] ACrimean ASSR was re-established within theUkrainian SSR in 1991 during thecollapse of the Soviet Union.
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