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image by Zoltan Horvath, 24 April 2014
(Note: You need an Unicode-aware software and font to correctely view the cyrillic text on this page. See here transliteration details).
I’d like to once again stress the point that
Novgorod and
Niẑniĭ Novgorod
are two completely different cities,
both regional capitals. Novgorod was recently
renamed Velikiĭ Novgorod;
and Niẑniĭ Novgorod
was named Gorhkiĭ | Горький
(a.k.a. Gorky) from 1932 to
approx. 1992.
António Martins, 21 Feb 1999
"Niẑniĭ | Нижний"
means "Lower", "Velikiĭ |
Великий" means "Great".
Gvido Pētersons, 22 Feb 1999
There is no law about flag on the
official
regional web site yet.
Michael Simakov, 01 Mar 1999
Flag of Nizhniy Novgorod was adopted on 28 April 2005. Image of flag:
http://www.government-nnov.ru/?id=12512 (behind the governor)
Zoltan Horvath, 24 April 2014
At the end of 90 acceptance of standart the
governor was extended. Such standarts were accepted in the Nizhniy
Novgorod area.
Sergey Filatov, 10 Oct 2005
Most of these flags are squarish (about 11:12),
rigid and fringed variants of the region (Governors) or Republic (Presidents)
flags with the regional emblem over all.
António Martins, 02 Oct 2005
niz.gif)
Argent a deer sable [maybe "proper"?].
Santiago Dotor, 17 Dec 1998
It looks like Russian heraldry is very much unlike that of other European
countries. It is not infrequent to find animals depicted with a very
realistic approach (and colours “proper”), instead of the typical heraldical
stylization and hues. Apparently also, there is a tendency to keep the
general elements of a coat of arms (a certain “charge” ie. animal, object etc.) but
this can vary as to position, attitude and even colour. Such is the case of
the Nizhni Novgorod coat of arms. I have now seen all sorts of combinations: argent a
deer sable, argent a deer gules, gules a deer or, vert a deer
gules, and so on. By the way, is it a deer or rather a reindeer?
Santiago Dotor, 18 Dec 98
In this
image one can see a wavying white flag with a red reindeer on a coat of
arms. It portrays the coat of arms of Nizhniy Novgorod but
with a golden laurel wreath instead of green, and the reindeer being red instead
of brown as depicted.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_anti-war_protests_in_Russia
Esteban Rivera, 28 February 2015
image by António Martins, 24 Apr 2000
I’ve just arrived from a weekend in Nizhniy Novgorod, where I had been
almost three years ago. That first time I saw the flag reported
bellow, but now it seem to have disappeared, giving
place to a white flag with the complete city coat of arms in full color
— a vexillographic step back, in my humble opinion. I know not the legal
standing of this flag, though I’m sure it stands for the city, not for
the region, as the coat of arms details on this flag match those of the
city and not those of the region (though both have the same heraldic
charges).
António Martins, 24 Apr 2000
On 2:3 red the city’s coat of arms (shield only),
red outlined yellow,
a yellow deer. (NB: usually the coat of arms is brown on
silver, only in the flag it is gold on red.) I made this
image out of local observation, and drawn it from actual
photos. I’m also not sure if it is the city’s or the region’s
flag. I’m more inclined to suppose that it is the city’s
because I saw it in early 1997, when most regions had not
adopted flags yet, but I’m not really sure.
António Martins, 23 Jun 1997 and 18 Feb 1999
The coat of arms is exactly as described,
but the flag is plain red with a red samnitic shield outlined
yellow in the middle and on it a yellow deer.
António Martins, 17 Dec 1998
I just found something that surprized me. In Russia
usually city rayons don't have proper coat of arms and
flags, but emblems only. But it seems things are
changing. On the official website of Avtozavodskiy
rayon of the City of Nizhniy Novgorod in
Nizhegorodskaya Oblast', in Russia, is shown a photo
of the Head of Administration with three flags a front
of him on a table. The first one (from his left) is
Russian flag and the second and third are (obviously)
the flags of the rayon. The flag is white with blue
emblem in the middle and in red cyrillic letters in
russian Avtozavodskiy rayon (probably) above the
emblem. The emblem itself is shown in the upper left
conner of the page.
Valentin Poposki, 2 Sep 2005
