Flag of Ukraine by Oleg Smigunov https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae Сделано с долей остроумия en-us 2018-11-01 11:00:40 UTC 2025-10-26 14:36:46 UTC hello@padlet.com oleg_smigunov https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299297098 Combination of blue and yellow as a symbol of Ukrainian lands comes from the flag of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia used in 12th century. As a national flag, the blue and yellow bicolour has been officially used since the 1848 Spring of Nations when it was hoisted over the Lviv Rathaus]]> 2018-11-01 11:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299297098 oleg_smigunov https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299297256 August 23 is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag in Ukraine; beginning with 2004. July 24 was previously marked as National Flag Day in Kiev. The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag in modern times took place on July 24, 1990 at the flagstaff of the Kiev City Council, two years before the flag was officially adopted as the National flag. Since 1992 Independence Day of Ukraine is celebrated on August 24. Following government decree, the flag must be flown from public buildings on this dates and some other holidays. Not all of these days are public holidays. Flags also must be flown on election days for the Verkhovna Rada in addition to other regional-specific flag days. The public display of flags to mark other events, such as the election of the president or the death of a prominent politician (whereupon flags would be at half-mast), can be declared at the discretion of the Cabinet of Ministers]]> 2018-11-01 11:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299297256 oleg_smigunov https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299297470 The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists is a Ukrainian political organisation which as a movement originally was created in 1929 in Western Ukraine (at the time interwar Poland). For long time OUN did not officially have its own flag, however during the Hungarian and Polish aggression against the Carpathian Ukraine in 1938, Carpathian Sich, a militarised wing of OUN, adopted its flag from the OUN's emblem – golden nationalistic trident on a blue background. The flag was finalised and officially adopted by the organisation only in 1964 at the 5th Assembly of Ukrainian Nationalists.]]> 2018-11-01 11:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299297470 oleg_smigunov https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299297503
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan army that engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during World War II against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and both Underground and Communist Poland. The group was the military wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists — Bandera faction (the OUN-B), originally formed in Volyn in the spring and summer of 1943. Its official date of creation is October 14, 1942,[1] day of Intercession of the Theotokos feast. The battle flag of the UPA was a 2:3 ratio red-and-black banner. The flag continues to be a symbol of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. The colours of the flag symbolise 'Ukrainian red blood spilled on Ukrainian black earth'.


]]> 2018-11-01 11:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299297503 oleg_smigunov https://padlet.com/oleg_smigunov/qrs9wlsjogae/wish/299298534 Coat of arms of Ukraine

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The state coat of arms of Ukraine \ officially referred to as the Sign of the Princely State of Volodymyr the Great[\ or commonly the Tryzub (\ is the national coat of arms of Ukraine, featuring the same colors found on the Ukrainian flag; a blue shield with a gold trident. It appears on the Presidential standard of Ukraine. Blue coloured tridents are considered to be irregular representation by the Ukrainian Heraldry Society.

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