Kalmykia (Russian Federation)

Republic of Kalmykia - Khalmg Tangch

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• Presentation of Kalmykia
• 1992 flag

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Presentation of Kalmykia

Full name: Republic of Kalmykia.
Location: Volga River region.
Status: Republic within the Russian Federation.

Notes: The Kalmyks settled the Volga River region in the seventeenth century. A Mongol people, they were originally Buddhist in faith. Annexed to Russian in 1771, a Kalmyk Autonomous Province was created by the Bolsheviks in 1920. This was abolished during the Second World War, when, in common with many other ethnic minorities, the Kalmyks were deemed to have displayed insufficient enthusiasm for fighting for Communism. The customary mass deportations followed. An Autonomous Republic was re-established in 1958. The Kalmyks fly an unusual coloured flag of light blue, yellow and pink, with a Buddhist symbol in the middle.
stuart notholt 17-SEP-1995

Kalmyk people are the last Western Mongols, the only buddhist people in Europe. Another name of the Republic is Chalmg Tangch.
giuseppe bottasini

The new flag of the Republic of Kalmykia - Khalmg Tangch, as is the official name of the republic - was adopted 30 July 1993. In the flag regulations which were issued 8 February 1994 the flag is described as follows (Source: Government of the Republic of Kalmykia - Khalmg Tangch.):

Regulations of the National flag of the Republic of Kalmykia - Khalmg Tangch

1. The National flag of the Republic of Kalmykia - Khalmg Tangch - Ulan zalata khalmg is a rectangular panel of golden-yellow, in the middle of which is a sky-blue circle with a white lotus constisting of nine petals.
The flag is attached to a pole crowned with a red tip in the forme of a "tongue of flame" with contour outlines of the ancient symbol of Derben-Oirats - four circles clamped together, in the base of which there is "ulan zala". The ratio of the flag width to its length is 1:2. The ratio of the radius of the circle to the flag width is 1:3.5. The ratio of the distance from tip to tip of the flower to the flag width is 1:4.5.
2. (...)

1992 flag

The first post soviet flag of Kalmykia - Khalmg Tangch was adopted by law of 30 October 1992. (Source: Government of the Republic of Kalmykia - Khalmg Tangch.)

Article 158: The National flag of the Republic of Kalmykia - Khalmg Tangch is a rectangular panel consisting of three horizontal stripes: the upper one is sky-blue, the middle one is golden-yellow and the lower one is scarlet. In the centre of the golden-yellow stripe, in a circle having a diameter equal to 1/4 of the flag width, is a sign in the form of flame of fire over the two wavy lines. The sign and the circumference are scarlet. The ratio of the width of the stripes of light blue and scarlet to the width of the golden-yellow stripe is 1:2. The ratio of the flag width to its length is 1:2.