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Kaluga Region (Russia)

Kaluz^skaa^ oblasth

Pascal Gross, 05 Feb 2004

Presentation of Kaluga Region
About the flag
Flag project in 2002

See also:

Other sites:

Full article of law (including image which is rather uncommon)
reported by Pascal Gross, 05 Feb 2004
Text about the adoption of a flag for Kaluga oblast
reported by Pascal Gross, 07 Oct 2002
Official regional website, containing the coat of arms
reported by Pascal Vagnat, 21 Dec 1998
Coat of arms of Kaluga city, also avaliable in an animation version
reported by Pascal Vagnat, 21 Dec 1998

Presentation of Kaluga Region

(Note: You need an Unicode-aware software and font to correctely view the cyrillic text on this page. See here transliteration details).

Name (english): Kaluga Region • (russian): Калужская область | Kaluẑskaâ oblasth
Capital: Калуга | Kaluga
Area: 29 900 km² (≅11 500 sq.mi.) • Population: 1 071 400 inhabitants in 2000
Status: Region (область | oblasth) within the Russian Federation
Federal District: Central Region • Economic region: Center (central European Russia)
License plate code: 40 • Ham radio code: KG • ISO 3166-2 code: KLU
Flag adopted on 2001.12 • Coat of arms adopted on 2001.12

About the flag

The flag of Kaluga oblast has been adopted on 30 January 2004. It is made of three horizontal stripes R/W/V, the middle white stripe being 1/6 of the height of the flag. Ratio is 2:3.
Pascal Gross, 05 Feb 2004

Flag project in 2002

At http://www.kaluga.ru/news/?dr=10122001 there is a text about the adoption of a flag for Kaluga oblast.
Pascal Gross, 07 Oct 2002

On a red field with a white stripe in the center (?) the arms (with prevailing green color). Note that the flag has been approved by the regional heraldic commission and will be further discussed by the All-Russian Heraldic Commission in St. Petersburg.
Jan Zrzavy, 07 Oct 2002