Russia Flag

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The flag of Russia was first used as an ensign for Russian merchant ships and became an official flag of the Tsardom of Russia in 1696. The flag is a tricolor composed of three equal horizontal fields: white on the top, blue in the middle and red on the bottom.

It remained in use until the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1917. During the Soviet Union's existence, it used the flag with the red field with the golden hammer and sickle and the golden bordered red star on top.

With the Soviet Union fell, the pre-revolutionary tricolor was re-introduced as the flag of the Russian Federation in 1991. The Tsarist tricolor was fully restored in 1993 after the constitutional crisis as the current flag.

There are plenty of interpretations for the meaning of the colors of the Russian flag. The most popular is: The white color symbolizes nobility and frankness, the blue is the faithfulness, honesty, impeccability and chastity, and red is courage, generosity and love.