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![[Russian Railroad flag]](../images/r/ru_mps_p.gif)
This one I've seen only once, flown from the rooftop pole of the
main railway station building, in Kanas^, Chuvashia,
in 1997.08.10. It consists of a “white ensign” like
plain white field with the russian flag in the upper hoist and the railway
logo gold in the lower fly.
I've never seen this flag in any other railway permises in Russia before
(but maybe it is flown only on sunny Sundays...) nor it is known by the
general population. Russian railways are administered by the Transports
Ministery (M.P.S. — Ministerstvo Putei~ Soobxenii~), along with
every kind of roads and motorways, inland waterways (rivers and canals),
civil navigation and civil aviation. This flag stands
for the train (poezd) branch of that huge Ministery.
António Martins, 14 Dec 1997
I saw this Russian Railroad (Rossiskyi~ Z^eleznyi~ Dorogiq)
flag again, also on a sunday — this time in Moscow, hoisted in a large
facility at Komsomol square, where three major railway stations
(A^roslavskii~, Kazanhskii~ and Leningradskii~) are located.
António Martins, 09 Dec 1999
![[Aeroflot flag]](../images/r/ru_flot.gif)
This one I haven't actually seen, but it was discribed to my by a
former airliner pilot. He was very proud that Aeroflot is the the only
entity that keeps the serp i molet (hammer and sickle) on it's
logo and described to me the flag to be like «that one
you have sketched there», but light blue and with the Aeroflot logo
in (dark) blue on the lower fly.
António Martins, 14 Dec 1997