List of Ukrainian flags

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The following is a list of flags of Ukraine :

National flag

FlagDateUseDescription
1918 — 1920; 1992 — Present National and Naval Jack flag of Ukraine Two stripes of blue (top) and yellow (bottom).
1918 — 1920; 1992 — Present Hanging National flag of Ukraine

Presidential flag

FlagDateUseDescription
N/A Presidential standard of the flag of Ukraine. The yellow Tryzub, within a yellow border made of leaves, on a blue field.

Military flag

FlagDateUseDescription
N/A Ministry of Defence flag. Raspberry color field with Ministry of Defence logo in the center.
N/A General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces flag. Raspberry color field with General Staff logo in the center.
N/A Armed Forces flag. Raspberry color field with Armed Forces logo in the center.
N/A Ground Forces flag. Raspberry color field with Ground Forces logo in the center.
N/A Air Force flag. Blue field with Air Force logo in the center.
2014 National Guard flag. Blue field with National Guard logo in the center.
N/A Naval ensign of Ukraine. Blue cross with a miniature Ukrainian flag in the upper left corner.
August 7, 2001 Sea Guard ensign of Ukraine. Green cross with a miniature Ukrainian flag in the upper left corner.
Pennant
Sea Guard Pennant
Red Cross for hospital ships

Personal flags

Flag Name
Standard of the Minister of Defense
Standard of the Chief of the General Staff
Standard of the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Ground Forces
Standard of the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Navy
Standard of the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Air Force
Standard of the Commander-in-Chief of Nathional Guard

Personal naval flags

Flag Name
Ukrainian Minister of Defence flag at sea
Ukrainian Navy Commander's flag.
Ukrainian Naval Region Commander's flag.
Ukrainian Navy Ship Formation or Group flag.

Government and Non-Military Security Forces

FlagDateUseDescription
State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
2002 Security Service of Ukraine
2008 Special Communications Service Ensign
Ministry of Internal Affairs
2003 Customs Service Ensign
2003 Anti Monopoly Committee Ensign
2004 State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate Ensign
2003 State Statistics Service Ensign
2006 State Service for Financial Monitoring Ensign
2003 State Reserve Agency Ensign

Flags of Ukrainian regions

Flags of Ukrainian oblasts

FlagUseDateDescription
Flag of Cherkasy Oblast 1998
Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast 2001
Flag of Chernihiv Oblast 2000
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 2002
Flag of Donetsk Oblast 1999
Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 2001
Flag of Kharkiv Oblast 1999
Flag of Kherson Oblast 2001
Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast 2002
Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast 1998
Flag of Kiev Oblast 1999
Flag of Luhansk Oblast 1998
Flag of Lviv Oblast 2001
Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast 2001
Flag of Odessa Oblast 2002
Flag of Poltava Oblast 2000
Flag of Rivne Oblast 2005
Flag of Sumy Oblast 2000
Flag of Ternopil Oblast 2003
Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast 1997
Flag of Volyn Oblast 2004
Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast 2001
Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast 2009
Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast 2003

Flag of Autonomous Republic

FlagUseDateDescription
Flag of Crimea1992 (officially adopted on April 21, 1999)A blue–white–red triband

Flags of cities with special status

FlagUseDateDescription
Flag of Kiev 1995 Archangel Michael, holding flaming sword and shield.
Flag of Sevastopol 2000 Seal of the city.

Flags of other cities

FlagUseDateDescription
Flag of Donetsk
Flag of Kharkiv
Flag of Odessa
Flag of Dnipropetrovsk
Flag of Zaporizhia
Flag of Lviv
Flag of Kryvyi Rih
Flag of Nikolayev
Flag of Mariupol
Flag of Luhansk
Flag of Makiivka
Flag of Vinnytsia
Flag of Simferopol
Flag of Kherson
Flag of Poltava
Flag of Chernihiv
Flag of Cherkasy
Flag of Sumy
Flag of Horlivka
Flag of Zhytomyr
Flag of Dniprodzerzhynsk
Flag of Kirovograd
Flag of Khmelnytskyi
Flag of Rivne
Flag of Kremenchuk
Flag of Lutsk
Flag of Bila Tserkva

Regional and minority flags

FlagDateUseDescription
Since 1917 Flag of the Crimean Tatars Currently, only the light blue flag is used, which is now an ethnic flag. The golden colored damğa was used in the upper left corner of the flag and sometimes in the center.
1917-1918 Religious flag of the Crimean Tatars
1917-1918 Military flag of the Crimean Tatars

Historical flags

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia

FlagDateUseDescription
1199–1349

Poland and Lithuania

FlagDateUseDescription
1349–1569-1587 Banner of Poland
1561-1569-1587 Royal Banner of Lithuania
1587-1772 Flag of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Cossack Hetmanat

FlagDateUseDescription
Flag of the Zaporozhian Host
Historical flag of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Russian Empire (1654-1917)

FlagDateUseDescription
1710/1721-1858
1883–1917/1918 		Civil ensign of Russia
Flag of Russia
1858-1883 Flag of Russia
1914-1917 Flag of Russia (private use)
1710/1721-1858 Imperial Standard of Russia
1858-1917 Imperial Standard of Russia

Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and Austria–Hungary from 1772 to 1918

FlagDateUseDescription
- 1918 Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy, also the flag of the Austrian Empire, from the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 flag of Cisleithanian Austria
1786-1915 Naval Ensign, Merchant Ensign (until 1869)
1869-1918 Merchant Ensign of Austria-Hungary
1915-1918 Naval Ensign
1815-
Late 19th Century		 Standard of the Emperor
Late 19th Century-
1915		 Standard of the Emperor
1915-1918 Standard of the Emperor
FlagDateUseDescription
Until 1849 Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria created after 1772 when this previously Polish province had been annexed to Austria.
1849-1890 Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria
1890-1918 Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria

Ukrainian People's Republic

FlagDateUseDescription
1917Flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic
1918-1919Flag of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and Hutsul Republic
1917–1921Naval flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic

Ukrainian State

FlagDateUseDescription
1918-1920Flag of the Ukrainian State and UPR

Royal Family Standards

FlagDateUseDescription
1918 Royal Standard of the Hetman of Ukraine
1918 Royal Standard of the Prince of the Hetman of Ukraine
1918 Royal Standard of the Princess of the Hetman of Ukraine
1918 Royal Standard of the Wife of the Hetman of Ukraine

Free Territory

FlagDateUseDescription
1918-1921 Flag of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of UkraineSee Anarchist_symbolism#Black_flag

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

FlagDateUseDescription
1917–1918Flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
1918Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic
1919–1929 Flag of the Ukrainian SSRThe first flag was red with the gold Cyrillic sans-serif letters У.С.С.Р. (USSR, initialism for Ukrayinskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika in the Russian language).
1929–1937 Flag of the Ukrainian SSRIn the 1930s a gold border was added.
1937–1949 Flag of the Ukrainian SSRIn 1937, a new flag was adopted, with a small gold hammer and sickle added above the gold Cyrillic serif letters У.Р.С.Р. (URSR, for Ukrayins’ka Radyans’ka Sotsialistychna Respublika in the Ukrainian language).
1949–1991 Flag of the Ukrainian SSRTo comply, the Ukrainian Soviet authorities dropped the lettering and added a blue stripe (⅓ of the width). The Ukrainian SSR adopted this new design as its official flag on November 21, 1949.

Crimea

FlagUseDescriptionDate
Crimean People's RepublicState flag 1917-1918
Crimean Regional GovernmentState flag 1918-1919
Crimean Regional GovernmentNaval ensign 1921
Crimean ASSRState flag 1921-1929
Crimean ASSRState flag 1929-1938
Crimean ASSRState flag 1938-1945

Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

FlagUseDescriptionDate
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicState flag 1925-1937
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicState flag 1937-1938
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist RepublicState flag 1938-1940

Carpatho-Ukraine

FlagDateUseDescription
1939 Flag of the Carpatho-Ukraine

Ukrainian National Government (1941)

FlagDateUseDescription
1941 Flag of the Ukrainian National Government
N/A Flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Reichskommissariat Ukraine (1941–1945)

See: Flag of Nazi Germany

Flag Date Use Description
Flags used 1935 – 1945
1935–1945
1935–1945 		National flag[1]
Marine jack (Gösch)		 A red field, with a white disk with a black swastika, or hakenkreuz, at a 45 degree angle. Disk and swastika are slightly off-centre.
1920-1945 NSDAP Party flag (Parteiflagge)[1] A red field, with a white disk with a black swastika, or hakenkreuz, at a 45 degree angle. Disk and swastika are exactly in the centre.
1935–1945 Merchant flag variant with the Iron Cross
1938–1945 Reich war flag
1935–1945 Reich service flag
1935–1945 Standard of Adolf Hitler
1935–1945 Flag of the Schutzstaffel (SS)
1936–1945 Flag of the Ordnungspolizei (OrPo) ("Order Police", the national regular police organization of the Third Reich)

Black Sea Fleet for the transitional period (1992-1995)

FlagDateUseDescription
1992 Naval flag of the Black Sea Fleet for the transitional period
1992 Naval Ensign of the Black Sea Fleet (auxiliary)
1992 Naval Ensign of the Black Sea Fleet (beacon)
1992 Naval Ensign of the Black Sea Fleet (rescue)
1992 Pendant of the Black Sea Fleet (ships)
1992 Pendant of the Black Sea Fleet (boats)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 (German) Herzfeld, Andreas (June 2001). "Einige unbekannte Flaggenänderungen 1933–1945". Der Flaggenkurier (in German) (Hennigsdorf: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Flaggenkunde) (13): 17–23.