Coat of arms of the Republic of Karelia

The Coat of Arms of the Republic

The coat of arms of the Russian Republic of Karelia is crossed in three equal parts with the colors of the flag of Karelia on a shield with a profile of a rampant black bear. The golden frame of the shield comes into stylized image of a fir tree on the left and a pine tree on the right. In the upper part of the shield there is an octagonal star (doubled cross) of gold. The arms were created by Yu. S. Nivin.

The current coat of arms of Karelia has much resemblance with the coat of arms of the independent Republic of Uhtua, the national symbol of East Karelia created by Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The main difference is that the bear was holding a billhook. The shield had the traditional Varangian colours and there were polar lights above of shield.^[1]

Sources

• Constitution of the Republic of Karelia, paragraph 13.
• The official site of the republic

1. ↑ http://heninen.net/gerb/english.htm#1920

See also

• Emblem of the Karelo-Finnish SSR 1941–1956
• Coat of arms of the Province of Karelia in Finland

Coats of arms of the republics of Russia
Adygea  Altai Republic  Bashkortostan  Buryatia  Chechnya  Crimea[1]  Chuvashia  Dagestan  Ingushetia  Kabardino-Balkaria  Kalmykia  Karachay-Cherkessia  Karelia  Khakassia  Komi Republic  Mari El  Mordovia  North Ossetia-Alania  Sakha Republic  Tatarstan  Tuva  Udmurtia

1. ↑ The status of Crimea and of the city of Sevastopol is since March 2014 under dispute between Russia and Ukraine; Ukraine and the majority of the international community consider Crimea to be an autonomous republic of Ukraine and Sevastopol to be one of Ukraine's cities with special status, while Russia, on the other hand, considers Crimea to be a federal subject of Russia and Sevastopol to be one of Russia's three federal cities.