Daghestan (Russia)

Dagestan

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Дагестан

image by António Martins, 06 Oct 1999

• Presentation of Daghestan
• Description of the flag
• President's flag
• State flag?
• Independentist flag
• Flag of 1992-1993
• Doubtful flags of 1993-1994

• Flags of Daghestanian ethnic groups
• Daghestan in the Soviet Union, 1920-1992
• pre-Soviet Daghestan flags
• Russia
• Russian subnational flags (overview of the subdivisions, list of federation “subjects” and clickable map)
• Terek Cossacks

Presentation of Daghestan

(Note: You need an Unicode-aware software and font to correctely view the cyrillic text on this page. See here transliteration details).

• Name (english): Daghestan • (russian, short form): Дагестан | Dagestan • (russian, long form): Республика Дагестан | Respublika Dagestan
• Local official language: 35 (see Daghestan’ s ethnic flags page)
  
• Capital (russian): Махачкала | Maqaĉkala • (english): Makhachkala • (former name): Petrovsk-Port | Петровск-Порт (1857-1922)
• Area: 51 300 km² (≅19 800 sq.mi.) • Population: 2 166 400 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Republic (Республика | Respublika) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Northern Caucasus • Economic region: Northern Caucasus
• License plate code: 05 (in the soviet era: ДА | DA) • Ham radio code: DA • ISO 3166-2 code: DA
• Flag adopted on 1994.02.26 • Coat of arms adopted on 1994.10.20

This territory, which is roughly the same size as the independent states of Armenia and Georgia, was turbulant throughout Tsarist times due to the opposition of its mainly Islamic inhabitants to Christian rule. The Soviets created the Daghestan ASSR in 1920.
Stuart Notholt

Description of the flag

The official state flag of Daghestan has three horizontal stripes — green, light blue and red (1:2). It was adopted at 26th February 1994.
Michael Simakov, 30 Jun 1998

President's flag

In magazine "Russian Federation Today" 4(62)/2006 on page 4 is photo of the President of the Republic of Daghestan Mr.Mukhu Aliev with Standard of the President of the Russian Federation and Standard of the President of the Republic of Daghestan.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 16 Aug 2006

This implies some interesting possiblities:

1. That the background of the emblem is probably meant to be transparent (i.e., no background), showing white on a blank page but blue when placed on the middle stripe of the Daghestan flag.
2. That the size of the emblem on the presidential flag is therefore smaller than the state flags reported below, covering only the middle stripe (Mikhail's image seems to confirm this).
3. That this design is indeed the Presidential flag of Daghestan (as already reported on list).
4. That, following the 2003 change in legal prescriptions (from light blue _goluboi~_ to blue _sinnii~_, as reported by Antonio Gutierrez on 2006.06.25, 16:24) for the Daghetan flag, these two flag's middle stripe, Russian federal and Daghestan republic, are used in the same shade of blue; validite added by this being such a an official situation as the meeting of the respective Presidents.

On a second thought, the photo forwarded by Mikhail seems to imply that this presidential flag is (like almost all others at this page) is square or squarish
António Martins-Tuválkin, 12 Apr 2007

State flag?

At caspian.hypermart.net/dagestsm.gif is this wonderful flag.
Jarig Bakker, 15 Oct 1998

I don’t know this flag but it is the coat of arms [see image by Pascal Gross] of the republic which appear in the middle.
Pascal Vagnat, 15 Oct 1998

Could it be a sort of Daghestan state flag? The background is the Daghestan flag as we know it…
Jorge Candeias, 15 Oct 1998

Independentist flag

Three days ago I received info about the flag of the islamic republic of Dagestan, led by emir Shamil Basaev. The flag is, of course, green. In center has an emblem (like a signature or stylized inscription), and below an islamic inscription. I’m trying to translate the inscription and the signature from caucasian sources. The drawing will are available in my next Bulletin.
Jaume Ollé, 15 Aug 1999

Flag of 1992-1993

Dagestan used the RSFSR flag but with the letters DSSR, before it introduced the flag now in use.
Ralf Stelter, 27 Jun 1999

Doubtful flags of 1993-1994

Thick stripes

This flag was in use between 10 June 1993 and 27 February 1994. The previous flag (green, blue, red) was restored 27 February 1994. The current flag was in use in 1992 when the soviet Nationalities made a meeting in Moscow.
Jaume Ollé, 01 Jul 1998

I doubt if the yellow-blue flag was ever in use officially.
Ralf Stelter, 27 Jun 1999

Daghestan flags other than the green-blue-red flag, namely that with yellow-blue-yellow-blue horizontal stripes, approx.: 3:2:1:2, pubblished by vexillological bulletins [Flagmaster, Emblèmes et Pavillons, Gaceta de Banderas] based on information by O. I. Tarnovsky, had never been used in Daghestan.
Mario Fabretto, 01 Jul 1998, after [brz9X]

Thin stripes

This flag is listed under number 102 at the chart Flags of Aspirant Peoples [eba94] as: «Daghestan - North Caucasus, Russia». With thinner medium blue stripes (ca. ¹/₁₂th of the hoist).
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 1999

Is any particular reason or reasons why those flag design pattern are that similar to each other?

• Daghestan 1993-1994
• Ust’-Ordyn Buriat Autonomous Okrug
• Aga-Buriat National Okrug
• Altai Republic

Nozomi Kariyasu, 27 Jan 2000