Since 2004, on August 23, Ukraine celebrates the State Flag Day. This date was chosen because it was on August 23, 1991 that a group of deputies first brought the national flag of Ukraine into the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada.

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We have collected ten interesting facts about the history of the Ukrainian flag.

First mention.

The first combination of yellow and blue colors is found on the coat of arms of Lviv, which was presented to the city by its founder, Daniil Halytsky. The first mention of it dates back to 1256.. These colors were also on the emblem and flag of the Galicia-Volyn principality - a golden lion on a blue background.

Cossack flags.

The combination of blue with yellow or gold was widespread during the Cossacks, especially since the 18th century.. The Cossacks often had blue flags, decorated with gold or yellow elements, images of Orthodox saints or Cossacks..

Yellow-blue or blue-yellow.

Previously, it was possible to meet both options for using colors, however, starting from 1848, the blue-yellow option gradually began to prevail, which, finally, was consolidated in December 1918 by the UNR government..

According to unverified reports, the Chinese artist Mao Mao in 1992 asked the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, to change the color arrangement on the flag, since such a combination, according to Mao, symbolized troubles for the state.

Meaning of colors.

A common interpretation of the Ukrainian flag: blue symbolizes a clear sky, and yellow symbolizes ripe wheat fields. It was this explanation that contributed to the popularization of the flag in the Dnieper region at the beginning of the 20th century.. However, there are other interpretations of the color scheme..

From a religious point of view, blue is the power of God, and yellow is faith.. There is also a sacred version of the interpretation of colors, according to which yellow is a sunny, fiery, creatively active divine principle (fire), and blue is something conservative, passive, requiring activation (water).

Shape change.

At the very beginning, blue and yellow flags were triangular in shape.. For the first time, they tried to form a rectangular banner of yellow and blue colors Main Russian Rada in Galicia. And already in 1848. at the initiative of the Rada, the yellow-blue flag was raised at the city hall of Lviv for the first time.

First official recognition.

The first official recognition of the blue and yellow flag took place on March 22, 1918.. Then the Central Rada adopted a law, approving the combination of yellow and blue as the flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

tallest flagpole.

August 23, 2021 on Mount Bona, Ternopil region, the highest flagpole with the state flag of Ukraine was installed. The height of the record flagpole is 35 meters, at the highest point from sea level 397 meters. This achievement was recorded by the "

Uniqueness.

Among the flags of the Slavic countries, only Ukrainian and Bosnian flags do not have red..

Record height.

In 2016, Ukrainian climbers Alexander Orishko, Denis Peskov, Yuriy Gavrilyuk and Andriy Yerko set our flag on top of the highest volcano in the world - Ojos del Salado in the Andes. Its height is 6872 meters.

In the same year, 2016, Irina Galai, the first Ukrainian woman to climb Everest, unfurled the Ukrainian flag there..

Largest painted flag.

The largest painted state symbol appeared in 2014 at the initiative of local activists in Kyiv on Obolonska embankment. The flag was entered in the national register of records of Ukraine as the largest flag of Ukraine painted on a concrete surface - its size is 1800 m?