The Russian flag from the Epistles of the areas launched in Crimea

The Russian flag made of 24 extracts from the Epistles areas of the Peninsula, opened in Simferopol.
So in the Republic has decided to celebrate the Day of State Flag of the Russian Federation, which is celebrated on the last working Day of the week. The project " Russian Flag " began in the Crimea two weeks ago. Fragments of the coming of the Flag were sent to All parts of the Peninsula, the people who wrote them or their wishes Republic and throughout the country. The size of the giant flag of Russia amounted to 162 square Meters. Its length in the length - 18, width - 9 meters, ITAR-TASS reported. In the event of the presentation of the Flag of Russia was attended by the acting head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov and the head of the State Council of the Republic Vladimir Konstantinov, left a message. On the Central square of Simferopol was opened also the " Alley of the unity of the Crimean ", where you can see pictures from the most interesting moments of the first phase of the project." for the first time in the Crimea Day flag of the Russian Federation celebrated at the State level. All the years, when the Crimea was from Ukraine, We felt a certain detachment from Russia, from our mutual history. We are delighted to see their flag, I think that the Crimean love of country will be an example for other Russian citizens, " said Feldman. After Simferopol Flag will visit All regions of the Peninsula. The initiator and organizer of the project, timed to the Day of State Flag of Russia, said the young activists of the Crimean organization of the party " United Russia ". Remember, August 22, the Day of State Flag of the Russian Federation, established in consequence of the decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated August 20, 1994 " On the Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation ". On this Day in 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR adopted the resolution " about the official recognition and use of the National Flag of the RSFSR, which decided to establish a special legislative act of the new state symbols of the Russian Federation to consider the historical Flag of Russia - cloth of equal horizontal white, azure, scarlet stripes - the official National flag of the Russian Federation. The Russian tricolor has more than 300 years of history. The state Flag of the Russian Federation appeared at the turn of the XVII and XVIII centuries, in the era of the establishment of Russia as a powerful country. The first time white-blue-red Flag was hoisted on the first Russian military ship " eagle ", during the reign of the father of Peter the great Alexei Mikhailovich. Legitimate as the " father " of the tricolor recognized Peter I. January 20, 1705, he issued a decree, according to which " on trade ships are obliged to raise white-blue-red Flag, he traced a sample and determined the order of horizontal strips. December 25, 2000, the head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin signed the Federal constitutional law " On the State flag of the Russian Federation ". In accordance with the legislative act of the State Flag of the Russian Federation is a rectangular cloth of three equal horizontal stripes: the upper white, blue in the middle and the lower one red. Ratio of the Flag's width to Its length is 2: 3.

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