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Кемеровская область

Flag of Kemerovo Regionimage by Victor Lomantsov, 5 March 2020

Presentation of Kemerovo Region

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Kemerovo Region is the homeland of the Shor people (Ŝorcy, in Russian), one of the largest Russian peoples without it’s own republic or autonomous district.
António Martins, 18 Feb 1999

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on 27 March 2019 a Decree to include in the Constitution of the Russian Federation the changed name of our region - Kemerovo Region - Kuzbass. Document No. 130 has already been published on the official legal information portal.

Recall that Sergey Tsivilev put forward the initiative last autumn to assign a second name to the region, and a survey conducted among its residents showed that the idea of ​​the governor was approved by an overwhelming majority. In December, deputies of the regional council legislated the name at the local level, and it remained only to amend the Constitution. And this happened:
�Include the new name of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation - Kemerovo Region - Kuzbass in part 1 of Article 65 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation instead of the name Kemerovo Region," the document says, signed by the president.

Thus, now three official variants of the name of the region can be used equally: �Kemerovo Region�, �Kemerovo Region - Kuzbass� and �Kuzbass�, including in all official documents.
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Note that the word "Kuzbass" is an abbreviation for the Kuznetsk coal basin. Its borders were determined by the famous geologist Pyotr Chikhachev as a result of the expedition of 1842, and three years later he introduced this term into scientific circulation. To designate the economic and geographical area, the abbreviation Kuzbass began to be used since 1921, including in documents, and later it became fully associated with the Kemerovo region, formed in 1943, although the borders of the region and the coal basin do not coincide.

Google-translated from
http://kuzbass85.ru/2019/03/27/kemerovskaya-oblast-ofitsialno-stala-kuzbassom/,
Ivan Sache, 27 March 2019

Description of the flag

New information: on 26 February, 2020 new versions of the flag and coat of arms were adopted. Now the coat of arms has a specific crown and two ribbons.
Victor Lomantsov, 5 March 2020

Previous flags

Flag of Kemerovo Regionimage by Tomislav �ipek, 2 February 2020

The new dimensions of flag are 2:3:
http://nk.life/2013/06/12/v-novokuznetske-otmechayut-den-rossii.html
https://ngs42.ru/news/more/50071773/
Tomislav �ipek, 2 February 2020

Up to 26 February, 2020, the flag was used in 2:3 proportions.
Victor Lomantsov, 5 March 2020

Flag of Kemerovo Regionimage by Tomislav �ipek, 2 February 2020

Flag is blue and red vertically (1:2), flag ratio 1:2.
Jan Zrzavy, 07 Oct 2002

At the Kemerovo.SU website there are images of arms and flag of Kemerovo oblast and, if I understand correctly, these symbols have been adopted 07.06.2002.
Pascal Gross, 07 Oct 2002

Sergei Sherniakov, of the heraldic committee of Perm Region, reports that the adoption date of the Kemerovo oblast flag is rather 29 May 2002.
Jaume Ollé, 02 Sep 2003

Standards of the Governor

At the end of 90 acceptance of standard the governor was extended. Such standards were accepted in the Kemerovo 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

The Decision from June, 26, 2002, Nº 1593, of Council of People’s Deputies of the Kemerovo Area, About Standard of the Governor of the Kemerovo Region and Honourable Standard of the Governor of the Kemerovo Region:

3. Standard represents the square panel executed in color scale, identical to colors of a flag of the Kemerovo area. In the centre of standard images of elements of symbolic of the arms of the Kemerovo area are placed and the heraldic symbols personifying the status of the Governor of the Kemerovo area and Signs consisting of an image Divine Scold as the patroness of the Kemerovo area, a tape of an award of Miner’s Glory I of a degree and framing the central part of the image of wheat ears (appendix Nº1).

11. Honourable standard represents a square panel (70×70 cm), 90 degrees pointed from top to bottom under a corner. The color scale and the heraldic symbols represented on honorable standard, correspond (meet) to colors and images of standard of the Governor of the Kemerovo area (appendix Nº2). On edges standard it is decorated with a fringe, from below — a brush of golden color. On the back sewing of golden color executes an inscription "Honourable standard of the Governor of the Kemerovo area".

Sergey Filatov, 10 Oct 2005

Coat of arms detail

CoA of Kemerovo Region.gif)image by Jens Pattke, 07 Oct 2002

The shield has its central part black, lower part green, and two upper triangles are red, the fields are separated by golden lines.
Jan Zrzavy, 07 Oct 2002

The other parts of the coat of arms are golden.
Pascal Gross, 07 Oct 2002

According to text of Law: «Lower part of the wreath tied with ribbon of Lenin Order. »…« Date of foundation of the Kemerovo oblast, 1943, written on central part of ORDER’S RIBBON» Ribbon of Lenin Order is red with two thin gold stripes on each edge.
Victor Lomantsov, 08 Oct 2002

At www.web.kuzbassnet.ru/ger_ksb.shtmthere is information about the former arms of the oblast, adopted in 1994, together with an undocumented flag design.
Victor Lomantsov, 23 Dec 2002

Kuzbas flag proposal?

Unknown Kemerovo flagimage by António Martins, 18 Feb 1999

A page atKuzbassnet.RU(I don’t know how official this website is) the white-black-green flag is pictured together with a coat of arms totally different from the official one.
Pascal Gross, 07 Oct 2002

It is arms of the oblast, adopted in 1994.
Victor Lomantsov, 23 Dec 2002

This flag design uses the same colors as the official “emblem” of Kemerovo city (which is very different from its flag), available at the municipal website.
António Martins, 04 Oct 2006

In the accompanying text, there is no info about approving these symbols of the Kemerovo Region. I guess that the white-black-green tricolore is somebody’s personal invention — a combination of the “traditional” (= civil war) flag of Siberia (white over green) with a black stripe (standing for coal industry)…
Jan Zrzavy, 07 Oct 2002 and 09 Oct 2002

This flag is clearly a variant of theSiberian colors, consisting of unequal stripes of white (5) black (2) and green (5), with a ratio of 3:5. About the meaning of the superimposed black stripe I can only speculate that it relates to coal, being the north of this region very industrialized and harbouring a large coal mining basin — kuzbas.
António Martins, 18 Feb 1999

I notice that this flag design uses the same colors as the official "emblem" of Kemerovo city (which is very different from its flag), available at the municipal website.
António Martins, 09 Oct 2006