Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation

Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation
The Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation is celebrated annually on August 22. It was established on the basis of the decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 20, 1994 "" On the Day of the State Flag of the Russian Federation "".
On this day in 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR adopted a resolution "" On the official recognition and use of the National Flag of the RSFSR "", which decided to consider the historical flag of Russia - a panel of equal-sized horizontal white, azure, scarlet stripes before the establishment of a new state symbols of the Russian Federation by a special law - the official National flag of the Russian Federation.
The Russian tricolor has more than 300 years of history. The national flag in Russia appeared at the turn of the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries, during the era of the formation of Russia as a powerful state. For the first time, a white-blue-red flag with a double-headed eagle sewn on it was raised on the first Russian warship "Orel", during the reign of the father of Peter I, Alexei Mikhailovich, but researchers have no consensus on how these colors were combined.
Peter I was recognized as the legitimate “father” of the tricolor. On January 20, 1705, he issued a decree according to which “on all sorts of merchant ships” “a white-blue-red flag should be raised, he himself drew a pattern and determined the order of the horizontal stripes.