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The flag of Ust-Ord Buryat Autonomous District is described in Article 8 of the Law No. 19 of UOBAD About COA and flag of the UOBAD from 25 June 1997.
The flag is composed of two horizontal stripes, dark blue and white
(7:1). In the blue stripe there is a yellow circle with the white sun
emblem "arbagar" within. The diameter of the circle equals to 1/2 of
the width of the blue stripe, the circle is accompanied by four small
yellow circlets. In the white stripe there is a red
ornament. Flag ratio is 2:3.
Dark blue stands for the blue sky forever (from the point of view of
the pan-Mongol and pan-Turkic cosmogony and mythology), white for
milk (probably — this is the meaning of the silver in the arms, no data
on the flag), arbagar for indefinite life
cycle, happiness, unity of the space, earth and Buryat people (etc.). The
red ornament stands for nomadic lifestyle of the Buryat tribes in the past
and for their prosperous future.
The flag is coauthored by A. A. Bulgatov and M. R. Dambiyeva and is
derived from the Geser’s flag used in 1993 in the Center of the
Buryat National Culture in Ulan-Ude: that flag was dark blue with the
arbagar.
Jan Zrzavy, 19 Jan 2003
"Meandr" means "meander" — zig-zag line
also traditional for mongol ornaments.
Gvido Pētersons, 31 May 2000
I see one time the argabar on TV, it looks like
triple wavy swastika.
Victor Lomantsov, 01 Feb 2000
I think "argabar" is a true buryat word; in khalkh-mongolian
it has’nt any meaning. According to description in complex — big
disc with 4 small discs and "triade".
Gvido Pētersons, 31 May 2000
The so called “triada” in the center of flag (and
coat of arms also) according the flag Law of Ust-Orda AD is blazononed as
«Triada is a white triradiated sun. Three rays are three waves
running clockwise, one of the rays is upright».
Yury Rocich, 01 Jun 2000
I’ve searched in mongol etnographic ornaments: the most common
“triade” are «three furnace (fireplace) stones
— father, mother and child» but graphical symbol is not
presented by star or sun.
Gvido Pētersons, 02 Jun 2000
Also known as an obo, widely found from Siberia to Tibet; according to Owen Lattimore High Tartary, 1930 (reprint 1994):
Obos have been described as graves by at least one pair of travelers. They are in fact obos of the kind that Qirghiz and Qazaqs, like the Mongols, Tibetans, and all the folk of the inner lands of Asia, set up in all memorable places and on peaks, passes, the junction of boundaries, and holy ground. In this place they are raised to the guardian powers of the pass, and staves are set in them, fluttering with tassels, rags, and, by a peculiar custom of the Muzart, the tails of all norses and beasts of transport that have died on the importunate glacier.Jarig Bakker, 02 Jun 2000
All three related flags (Mongolia’s,
Buryatia’s and
Agin Buryatia’s) show
soyonboes. Ust-Ord Buryatia’s flag, on the other hand, features
an argabar, quite similar to the
US Dep. of Transportantion logo
and to the labaru cantabru, which appears on some
cantabrian independentist flags.
Antonio Martins, 05 Sep 2000
image by Mikhail Revnivtsev, 14 Feb 2003
Law of July,17, 1997:
The flag is green with white horiz. stripe along bottom edge. In green is an argabar emblem in a gold ring with four small gold bezants in the corners. In the centre of the white stripe is a red meandr. Proportions 2:3. Green stripe = 7, white = 1. Meanings:Victor Lomantsov, 01 Feb 2000Coat of arms is «white-green shield» (per bend dexter Argent and Vert), gold ring, white argabar, four gold bezants in corners.
- green - immortality, nature, renovation, fauna and flora (forests).
- white - heavens, cleanness, milk
- red - blood, fire, warmth, sun, bravery
- gold - richness, happiness, light of sun
Coat of arms and first flag of the Buryat autonomous district
of Ust-Ordynsky were adopted by the law of autonomous district #19
on July 25, 1997. On September 18, 1997 districtial law #21 was
resized green colors on a flag on blue. The coat
of arms has remained without variations till now.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 14 Feb 2003
Green flag was in use in July-September 1997. Blue flag was in use in
September 1997 - March 2009 and after July 2011. See for references:
Current flag and
former flag.
Yuri Pirogov, 30 December 2012
The official a.ok. flag was derived from the Geser’s flag used in
1993 in the Center of the Buryat National Culture in Ulan-Ude: that
flag was dark blue with the arbagar.
Jan Zrzavy, 19 Jan 2003
A flag, of unknown symbolism, has been reported.
It is gold with two purple stripes at the base.
Stuart Notholt, 08 Dec 1995
This flag is listed under number 125 at the chart Flags
of Aspirant Peoples [eba94] as:
«Ust-Ordu”n Buryatia - South Siberia».
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 1999
This flag was adopted Aug 20 1992. One question about the flags of
Is any particular reason or reasons why those flag
design pattern are that similar to each other?
Nozomi Kariyasu, 27 Jan 2000
