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Really, though administrative center
of Leningrad region is
S. Petersburg old
name of region conserve now. It’s very curiosly.
In future possible unification of Region and
S. Petersburg in one subject of Russian Federation
(now they're different subjects). By the way, when
Leningrad was renamed in Sankt-Petersburg, it not
was subject of RSFSR
(administrative center of region only).
Andrey Yashlawsky, 19 Jan 1999
The background is red (krasnyi~), and not
dark red (purpurnyi~).
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:
The flag of St-Petersburg is a rectangular red field with two crossed silver anchors (the river anchor and the sea anchor). Gold scepter surmounted with double-headed eagle is placed over the anchors.Coat of arms were adopted by Presidium of City Council of Leningrad (former name of St. Petersburg) on 6, September, 1991 (Decision 270) and confirmed on 2, December, 1991 by City Council of St.Petersburg. In fact the arms were designed in early XVIII c. by italian heraldist F. Santi, the assistant of Heroldmaster, officially adopted in 1780 and readopted in 1991. St.Petersburg — former capital of Russia. This status is symbolized with scepter.
Ratio 1:1,5 Reverse side of the flag is a mirror of obverse side.
These are two different tipes of anchors — tripple for
river, and other for sea. There were placed on coat of
arms because St.Petersburg has sea and river ports.
Michael Simakov, 20 Dec 1999
This image was originally made by me. In 1995 I did an article on
St. Peterburg 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 reconstruction was not very good too: the scepter
was in wrong form, the anchors were too large etc. But it was better then first
sketch. Later I have found good image, but the article in Gaceta No 20
(april 1995) was published with my reconstruction of the flag. Several
years ago I was surprised : my incorrect image made in 1995 is reproduced on
many web sites (without my name, of course). And at last I was shocked: I saw
this image on the official web page of St. Petersburg! My wrong image
copied by Petersburg webmaster! (Gvido probably has taken the image therefrom
and vectorized it).
Victor Lomantsov, 05 Mar 2002