Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #0039a6
- #d52b1e
- #ffffff
Other flags with red, white or blue or all of red, white and blue at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 3 horizontal bands
The fly edge changes colour going down, the foot does not, and every change is a straight line right across.
What we know about it
Adopted 1991; tricolor introduced by Peter the Great in the 1690s
White-blue-red, modeled on the Dutch tricolor, later the template for pan-Slavic colors across Europe.
Source: Flag of Russia on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 3 of them, with the sentence that says so.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Pan-Slavic Tricolors
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Russia is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 900 × 600
Credit Peter the Great
From Flag of Russia.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
