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image located by Paul Bassinson, 19 August 2023On 19, July, 2002 the Government of Russia adopted the flag of
Ministry of Transport (info sent me by N. Pankratev, a visitor of
my site
Vexillographia).
Victor Lomantsov, 07 August 2002
A “light blue”
(голубой)
flag with the tricolor canton including the blue
(синый) stripe.
Victor Lomantsov, 10 August 2002
This one I’ve seen only once, flown from the rooftop pole of the main
railway station building, in Kanaŝ, Chuvashia,
in 1997.08.10. It consists of a “white ensign” like plain white
field with the russian flag in the upper hoist and the railway logo gold in
the lower fly. I’ve never seen this flag in any other railway permises
in Russia before (but maybe it is flown only on sunny Sundays…) nor it
is known by the general population. Russian railways are administered by the
Transport Ministry (M.P.S. —
Ministerstvo Puteĭ Soobxeniĭ),
along with every kind of roads and motorways, inland waterways (rivers and
canals), civil navigation and civil aviation. This flag
stands for the train (poezd) branch of that huge Ministry.
António Martins, 14 Dec 1997
I saw this Russian Railroad (Rossiskyĭ Ẑeleznyĭ
Dorogiq) flag again, also on a sunday — this time in Moscow,
hoisted in a large facility at Komsomol square, where three major railway
stations (Âroslavskiĭ, Kazanhskiĭ and Leningradskiĭ) are
located.
António Martins, 09 Dec 1999
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2011
In this variant there is an additional golden yellow stripe separating the white
stripe of the canton from the rest. There are also additional crossed tools
(hammer and a tool to fasten or loosen screws(?)) under the winged wheel. So it
might be the flag of a repair unit.
I spotted this table flag in German Railway Museum of the DB in Nürnberg on 17
February 2011.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Mar 2011
The current flag of Aeroflot, as used in- and out-doors in most company
outfits I ever seen (and I’ve seen quite a bunch of them) is a dark blue
bedsheet with the company full logo (emblem and lettering) in the bottom fly
in white.
António Martins, Apr 2003
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According to 20 Minutes (17 April 2003), the Russian national
carrier Aeroflot refuses to drop the hammer and sickle from its logo.
Ivan Sache, 18 Apr 2003
This one I haven’t actually seen, but it was discribed to my by a
former airliner pilot. He was very proud that Aeroflot is the the only
entity that keeps the serp i molot (hammer and sickle) on it’s
logo and described to me the flag to be like «that one
you have sketched there», but light blue and with the Aeroflot logo
in (dark) blue on the lower fly.
António Martins, 14 Dec 1997
The light blue flag with russian flag canton and emblem in the lower
fly is not current and is probably fictitious.
António Martins, Apr 2003
May be it is real… But I never saw it.
Victor Lomantsov, 23 Dec 1999
image by Randy Young, 21 March 2016
The Interstate Aviation Committee (Russian: Межгосударственный авиационный
комитет) is the agency of the Russian government responsible for overseeing the
use and management of civil aviation in Russia and the CIS. It is the rough
equivalent of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the United
States. The IAC was founded in 1991 under the Civil Aviation and Airspace Use
Treaty, upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Air Accident Investigation
Commission works closely with Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency to conduct
investigations of aviation accidents and incidents.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Aviation_Committee
The flag of the Interstate Aviation Committee can be seen in a photograph online
here. The flag
features the agency's logo centered on a light blue field. The logo itself has
dark blue symbols at the center making a stylized "MAK," the agency's Cyrillic
initials. The acronym is flanked by a pair of gold wings atop a gold wreath.
Arched below the wreath are the words "INTERSTATE AVIATION COMMITTEE" in English
in black capital letters. Arched above and within the wreath is the agency's
name in Cyrillic.
Randy Young, 21 March 2016
