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Balkarian people (Russia)

image by Roman Potapov, 05 Oct 2000

Description of the flag
Tjore organization
Aspirant chart flag
Reported but inexistent autonomist flag of 1992

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Description of the flag

This national flag was adopted by 3rd session of 1st Congress of Balkarian people on 19, June, 1993. Author of the flag was I. Ẑankuŝev | И. Жанкушев. Symbols:

Blue colour — family of turkish peoples
Upper white stripe — celestial way of balkarian people
Lower white stripe — earthly way of balkarian people
White “double-headed” mountain — Elbrus (highest point in Caucasus, 5642 m) - two related peoples: balkarians and karachai

Victor Lomantsov, 04 Oct 2000

According to Vexillologie 116 [vex], this is the flag of Balkar National Council and of the self-proclaimed Balkar Republic.
Jan Zrzavy, 27 Jun 2001

Tjore organization

image by Jaume Ollé, 26 Jun 2001

According to Vexillologie 116 [vex], the blue flag with two white stripes, white circle, and white Elbrus Mt. belongs to the Karachay-Balkar organization Tjore (= Home?).
Jan Zrzavy, 27 Jun 2001

Aspirant chart flag

image by Željko Heimer

This flag, in light blue, is listed under number 107 at the chart Flags of Aspirant Peoples [eba94] as: «Malkar Respublika (Balkarians) - North Caucasus, Russia».
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 1999

Reported but inexistent autonomist flag of 1992

image by Jaume Ollë, 18 Jan 2003

I wander where this design comes from. Like many other post-soviet russian flags, it shows clear reminiscences of the RSFSR flag. The spelling "Волкария" ("Volkariâ") is quite weird, as the first letter should really be a cyrillic "b", not a latin one. Balkars, by the way, call themselves "Malkar", so this is not a local language issue. The second letter should also be something else: an "a" — I smell super-correction syndrome (with an "o" it would still sound as "a" in normative Russian pronunciation). All this may imply well-meaning but not very astute “research” made by a non-russian.
António Martins, 18 Jan 2003

This flag is a mistification. It never existed. You can throw out it to garbage basket.
Victor Lomantsov, 19 Jan 2003

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