Altay Territory (Russia)

Altai~skii~ krai~

Last modified: 2002-12-20 by antonio martins
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• Description of the flag
• Presentation of Altay Territory
• Barnaul city flag

• Russia
• Altay Republic
• Russian subdivisions (list and clickable map)
• Siberia

• Coat of arms of Altay Territory. On the same server, images of the arms and flag. Apparently no page about the flag, only about the arms — even though there’s a flag image in the server...
  reported by António Martins, 30 Jun 2002, and Pascal Gross, 07 Jun 2000
• Flag of Altay Territory [broken link]
  reported by Wadim Kiva, 21 Dec 2000
• Coat of arms of Altay Territory
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 18 Dec 1998

In 29 June 2000 Altai kray adopted a flag. Following other regions, it adopted the pattern of the old SSR Russia, with coa in center. In the blue band is a spike of wheat. Blue and red parts are separated by a very narrow band which is (of course) white.
Jaume Ollé, 09 Aug 2000

Presentation of Altay Territory

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

• Name (english): Altay Territory • (russian): Алтайский край | Altaĭskiĭ kraĭ
  
• Capital: Барнаул | Barnaul
• Area: 169 100 km² (≅65 300 sq.mi.) • Population: 2 642 000 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Territory (край | kraĭ) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Siberia • Economic region: West Siberia
• License plate code: 22 • Ham radio code: AL • ISO 3166-2 code: ALT
• Flag adopted on 2000.06.29 • Coat of arms adopted on unkn. date

There are two Altay in Russian Federation: Altai Republic and Altai Territory. A few years ago Altai Republic was the part of the Altai Territory, but now it is a constituent republic of the Russian Federation.
Evgeny Ivanov 22 Apr 1998

Barnaul city flag

Source: http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main_e.pl?Region=altai
Jens Pattke, 28 Jan 2002