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Kurgan Region (Russia)

Kurganskaâ oblasth

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Курганская область

Flag of Kurgan Region
image by Pascal Gross, 18 Apr 1999
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Presentation of Kurgan Region

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  • Name (english): Kurgan Region • (russian): Курганская область | Kurganskaâ oblasth
  • Capital: Курган | Kurgan
  • Area: 71 000 km2 (≅27 400 sq.mi.) • Population: 1 088 300 inhabitants in 2000
  • Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
  • Federal District: Ural • Economic region: Ural
  • License plate code: 45 • Ham radio code: KN • ISO 3166-2 code: KGN
  • Flag adopted on 1997.11.25 • Coat of arms adopted on 1997.11.25

About the flag

Nickname

Dmitry Ivanov, author of this flag, told me a funny story about the adoption of Kurgan Oblast flag. During the discussion of flag project in Oblast Duma (parliament), the vice-speaker Viktor Tataurov strongly objected against it: «These are not the kurgans (barrows) on the flag! This is a woman, swimming on her back!» Regional newspapers repeated these words. So, the flag of Kurgan Oblast received the original unofficial nickname: «woman, swimming on her back».
Ilya Morozov, 04 Nov 2000

The Kurgan coat of arms contains a further charge [apart from the mounds], but it doesn’t appear on the flag.
John Ayer, 25 Feb 2000

Law text

Law Of Kurgan Region
On The Coat Of Arms And Flag Of Kurgan Region
(adopted by the Kurgan Regional Council 25 November 1997)

Chapter II
The coat of arms of Kurgan Region

Article 2.
The coat of arms of Kurgan Region is a green heraldic shield bearing two stylized kurgans (mounds), of which the left is smaller and emerges from behind the right. … In heraldry, the right side is at the observer’s left, and the left at his right. …

Chapter III
The flag of Kurgan Region

Article 10.
10.1. The flag of Kurgan Region is a rectangular bunting, the breadth to the length related to each other as 1:2, divided horizontally into three equal fields of white, emerald (green) and white. In the central part of the emerald (green) field is the “kurgan” emblem from the coat of arms of Kurgan Region: two silver kurgans (mounds), one behind the other, the silhouettes of the kurgans separated by an emerald contour. The reverse of the flag is a mirror image of its obverse.

translated by John Ayer, 25 Feb 2000