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António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 May 2010
The flag shows the fox and the arrows on the main field of an inequal
horizontal tricolor of white (2/3rds of the total height), red, and blue;
specs thus (6+1+1):12 = 2:3. The legal text, «Act #140 of Council of
Deputies of the City District of Saransk» as quoted in the Wikimedia
Commons page, in Viktor Lomancov’s website dated of 2008.09.10
< http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/subjects/towns/saransk.htm >,
states that the stripes are «_белого, маренового
(темно-красного) и
темно-синего_» — «white, Wild Madder colored (dark red) and dark
blue».
Note yet another way to refer to dark red, and that dark blue is
prescribed, not just a translation of _sinniĭ_ to distinguish from
_goluboĭ_ (skyblue, light blue) as usual when translating Russian
vexillological texts. The same text prescribes «_красную
(червленую) лису
»(…)« три красных (червленых) стрелы_», giving a
different word for the
shade of red of the fox and arrows — _krasniĭ (ĉervlënyĭ)_, this being
regular medium red.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 May 2010