In Ukraine, the 23rd sickle marks the Day of the Sovereign Ensign. The main national symbol of accompanying Ukrainians to the road to independence across all fences. And today the blue-and-white banner highlights the struggle for freedom – on the chevrons of soldiers who were firmly in the occupation, raised over peaceful places.
Report on the history of the national ensign and its significance Years before the hour of war – in the materials of RBC-Ukraine.
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- When the Ukrainian flag appeared, why is it in the blue-zhovty
- Symbol of the nation fence
- Ukrainian ensign in the war
When the Ukrainian flag appeared, why is it blue and yellow
In 1992, the Verkhovna Rada confirmed that the sovereign ensign of Ukraine is a straight-cut fabric that consists of two dark colors: the upper one is a blue color, the lower one is a yellow color. The idea of victimizing national symbols in this way began long ago.
Sinyozhty was the official ensign of the Ukrainians during the national-free revolution at the beginning of the 20th century (UNR, ZUNR, Hetmanate). In 1918, he escorted the military forces of the UPR Military Army, the Ukrainian Galician Army, and ships of the UPR Black Sea Fleet. In 1939, the blue-and-white was ensign of Carpathian Ukraine.
Photo: Ensign of the Naval Minister of the UPR (wikimedia.org)
And first, the Ukrainian ensign appeared over the Lviv City Hall at 1848 i. At the hour of the national revival in Galicia (“Spring of Nations”), the Head of Rus'ka Rada praised the national symbol.
The basis was taken from the middle-century coat of arms of the Galicia-Volinsky principality – a golden lion on a black aphid. However, through the folding of the prepared ornament, simple banners from two horizontal embroidered fabrics in blue and yellow colors emerged. -blakitny, not blue-zhovty color ensign.
On photographs from the beginning of the last century, it is also clear that the upper part of the panel was light, but this was explained by the technology of photography of these hours (when the liquid was developed, the dark places came out light).
Photo : UGA soldiers with ensign. Colori is distorted through the peculiarities of photo development (wikimedia.org)
Official confirmation of the blue-yellow sequence can be found in the 1918 decree about the Ukrainian military-naval ensign of the UPR.
On the basis of the blue-yellow order, we can speak of the dark barv: the blue symbolizes the cloudy sky, and the yellow one symbolizes the gold of the wheat field.
The symbol of the nation under the fence
After the establishment of the Radian rule on the territory of Ukraine, the national right while I was under the fence. Yogo vikoristannya threatened with yaznitsa. The KDB closely guarded against such “anti-radiation” manifestations, but did not bother the patriots.
The banners were hung in many places all over the country:
- On Pershotravneva, the 1966 fate of the Sino-Zhovty majors over the rise of the Kiev Institute of People's Rule (now the Kiev National Economic University).
For this “offense” the sentence was increased by 2 years or Viktor Kuksa, and My friend Georgy Moskalenko was sent to the Tabors of the harsh regime for 3 years.
- 30 April 1967 at the Dnieper entrance to the district, a blue and yellow ensign with the inscription hung invisibly: “Ukraine's will and glory have not yet died.”
- May 9, 1968 Petro Krupnik, convicted for connections with the OUN, having hung a Ukrainian ensign on a former settlement in the Kulikovo Lviv region.
- On 22 June 1973, Chotiri was installed near Chortkova. and the ensigns issued proclamations until 55 and the river vote to the IV Universal of the Central Radya.
- On the 21st of 1976, the national flag hung in Kiev on the street of booth No. 21 on Khreshchatyk.
In the remaining days of the founding of the USSR, along the fence, the Ukrainian ensign appeared more and more often on the streets of Drohobych, Lvov, Ivano-Frankivska, Zhytomyr, Kiev.
At Lipna 1991 the national flag of the deputy in Svyatohirsku (Donech region) above Siversky Dints. Near the Dnieper the ensign was installed near the theater. Shevchenka organized his entire funeral, through a number of local police, the police expelled the activists and destroyed the canvas.
Photo: raising of the Ukrainian ensign near Kiev on 24 June 1990 (wikimedia. org)
- 22 Sep 1990 to the Day of Evil, under the blue-yellow ensigns, the “Lance of Unity” arrived from Ivano-Frankivsk to Kiev.
- Due to the praise of the Declaration on the sovereignty of Ukraine, on June 24, 1990, the blue and yellow banner was raised over the Kievradi building, where thousands of people were holding a rally.
- On September 23, 1991, the blue-yellow canvas was brought in before the Supreme Court. The next day, Ukraine voted its independence and the ensign covered the parliamentary rostrum.
In honor of the 23rd sickle itself, it was established sacred – the Day of the State Ensign of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Ensign in the War
After the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the national flag gained special significance. At combat positions, on the armor of military vehicles and equipment, the wines are a symbol of the fight for the freedom of the country.
In 2014, during the defense of the Donetsk airport, Ukrainian “cyborgs” over and over again hung the ensign over the everyday life. The Ukrainian flag was the first to turn on the liberated territory during the ATO/JFO and full-scale war.
During the counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region in 2022, the ZSU troops turned the banner of hundreds of settlements, and in some cases the village residents were defeated.
For example, in Kozachiy Lopana, after the deoccupation, the headman outnumbered skovykh and went on a bicycle to hang the Ukrainian ensign please.
At Circuny, people were glad to see the blue-yellow, because his appearance meant that you could go out onto the street without fear. “There was so much joy! The lady said: 'Let's go to the club, the ensign will hang there,'” a resident of Circuniv told Suspilny.
At the village of Rubizhne, Vovchansky district of the Kharkiv region, the military arrived at night, and a banner was hung over the crowd of prayers. During the occupation of the city, the locals repeatedly displayed the Russian tricolor over the alarm, through which the occupiers had to put up banners.
Ukrainians risked their lives when they gathered from ensigns for rallies buried in places and simply kept them at home.
Protests under Ukrainian flags took place in the occupied Kupyansk, Starobilsk, Energodary, Melitopol, Berdyansk, Kakhovtsi and other places.
For over a month, people went out to rallies in the buried Kherson, even as the Russians carried out brutal crackdowns and shootings. And after the liberation, the Kherson residents began to call the ZSU with ensigns, which they wanted from the shelling.
“In a robe, in a bag, and then put it in the refrigerator here in the basement,” said a resident of Kherson about those , as she retained her ensign.
Photo: Kherson after deoccupation (Getty Images)
In Kharkiv region, the Ukrainians stole the banner from the bank and buried it near the city, and after the liberation of the village, they went to war before the military defenses from the wicked vikopati. The warriors crowned the army and signed the ensign, so that they could then turn it over to the ruler.
Photo: ensign, who was captured by a resident of Kharkiv region (instagram.com/oborona.lviv)
In Kherson, a woman took over the Ukrainian flag on her back 'and under the paving slabs.
Last fate of the 23rd sickle over Kiev, deputy majors a special ensign who visited the military positions along the entire front line.
Plant with the signatures of the defencists was raised next to the “Fatherland Mother” monument, and then it became part of the National exhibition to the Museum of the History of Ukraine and Another World War.< /p>
During the preparation of the material, the following steps were taken into account: publications of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, “Suspilne. Kharkiv”, portal 100krokiv.info, video from the Ukrainian Witness YouTube channel, information from Wikipedia.
