Use | Other |
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Proportion | 3:2 |
Adopted | 17 August 1999 |
Design | A rising gold sun with 12 sunbeams and five gold ovals one under another |
Designed by | Nina Hryhorivna Shcherbak |
The flag of the Donetsk Oblast[1] (Ukrainian: Прапор Донецької області), often referred to as the flag of Donbas[2][3] (Ukrainian: Прапор Донбасу; Russian: Флаг Донбасса), is the official flag of Donetsk Oblast, an oblast of Ukraine. It was designed by artist Nina Shcherbak.[4] The flag was officially adopted on 17 August 1999.
The flag has proportions of 3:2, and is divided into two areas. In the upper part, there is a rising gold sun with 12 sunbeams in the upper fair-blue part of flag (resembling the sky). In the lower black part (resembling the Donets Coal Basin[5]) there are five gold ovals one under another (the reflection of the sun on the surface).
Powerful industrial Donetsk Region is situated in the steppe zone of the south-eastern part of Ukraine
На пятитысячнике Тянь-Шаня установили флаг Донбасса и символ Донецка.
Чорний колір означає вугілля