List of Ukrainian flags

Flag at Kyiv City Hall

The following is a list of flags of Ukraine :

National flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1918 — 1920; 1992 — Present	National flag and Naval Jack	Two stripes of blue (top) and yellow (bottom).
	1918 — 1920; 1992 — Present	Hanging national flag

Presidential flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1999	Presidential standard of the flag of Ukraine.	The yellow Tryzub, within a yellow border made of leaves, on a blue field.

Military flag

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	N/A	Ministry of Defence flag.	Raspberry color field with Ministry of Defence logo in the center.
	N/A	General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces flag.	Raspberry color field with General Staff logo in the center.
	N/A	Armed Forces flag.	Raspberry color field with Armed Forces logo in the center.
	N/A	Ground Forces flag.	Raspberry color field with Ground Forces logo in the center.
	N/A	Air Force flag.	Blue field with Air Force logo in the center.
	2014	National Guard flag.	Blue field with National Guard logo in the center.
	N/A	Naval ensign of Ukraine.	Blue cross with a miniature Ukrainian flag in the upper left corner.
	August 7, 2001	Sea Guard ensign of Ukraine.	Green cross with a miniature Ukrainian flag in the upper left corner.
		Pennant
		Sea Guard Pennant
		Red Cross for hospital ships

Personal flags

Flag	Name
	Standard of the Minister of Defense
	Standard of the Chief of the General Staff
	Standard of the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Ground Forces
	Standard of the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Air Force
	Standard of the Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Navy
	Standard of the Commander-in-Chief of National Guard
	Standard of Ukrainian DSNS Head
	Ukrainian Department of the State Guard Head Standard
	Standard of Ukrainian Security Service Head
	Standard of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine

Personal naval flags

Flag	Name
	Ukrainian Minister of Defence flag at sea
	Ukrainian Navy Commander's flag.
	Ukrainian Naval Region Commander's flag.
	Ukrainian Navy Ship Formation or Group flag.

Government and Non-Military Security Forces

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
	2002	Security Service of Ukraine
	2008	Special Communications Service Ensign
		Internal troops of Ministry of Internal Affairs
		State Emergency Service
	2003	Customs Service Ensign
	2003	Anti Monopoly Committee Ensign
	2004	State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate Ensign
	2003	State Statistics Service Ensign
	2006	State Service for Financial Monitoring Ensign
	2003	State Reserve Agency Ensign
	2003	Treasury of Ukraine

Flags of Ukrainian regions

Flags of Ukrainian oblasts

Flag	Use	Date	Description
	Flag of Cherkasy Oblast	1998
	Flag of Chernivtsi Oblast	2001
	Flag of Chernihiv Oblast	2000
	Flag of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast	2002
	Flag of Donetsk Oblast	1999
	Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast	2001
	Flag of Kharkiv Oblast	1999
	Flag of Kherson Oblast	2001
	Flag of Khmelnytskyi Oblast	2002
	Flag of Kirovohrad Oblast	1998
	Flag of Kiev Oblast	1999
	Flag of Luhansk Oblast	1998
	Flag of Lviv Oblast	2001
	Flag of Mykolaiv Oblast	2001
	Flag of Odessa Oblast	2002
	Flag of Poltava Oblast	2000
	Flag of Rivne Oblast	2005
	Flag of Sumy Oblast	2000
	Flag of Ternopil Oblast	2003
	Flag of Vinnytsia Oblast	1997
	Flag of Volyn Oblast	2004
	Flag of Zaporizhia Oblast	2001
	Flag of Zakarpattia Oblast	2009
	Flag of Zhytomyr Oblast	2003

Flag of autonomous republic

Flag	Use	Date	Description
	Flag of Crimea	1999	A blue–white–red triband.

Flags of cities with special status

Flag	Use	Date	Description
	Flag of Kyiv	1995	Archangel Michael, holding flaming sword and shield.
	Flag of Sevastopol	2000	Seal of the city.

Flags of other cities

Flag	Use	Date	Description
	Flag of Cherkasy	1995
	Flag of Chernihiv	2008
	Flag of Chernivtsi
	Flag of Dnipropetrovsk	2012
	Flag of Donetsk	2004
	Flag of Ivano-Frankivsk	1995
	Flag of Kharkiv	1995
	Flag of Kherson
	Flag of Khmelnytskyi	1997
	Flag of Kirovohrad	1996
	Flag of Luhansk	2006
	Flag of Lviv	1991
	Flag of Lutsk	2007
	Flag of Mykolaiv	1999
	Flag of Odessa	2011
	Flag of Poltava
	Flag of Rivne	1993
	Flag of Simferopol	2006
	Flag of Sumy	2000
	Flag of Ternopil	1993
	Flag of Vinnytsia	1993
	Flag of Uzhhorod	1990
	Flag of Zaporizhia	2001
	Flag of Zhytomyr	2007

Regional and minority flags

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1917	Flag of the Crimean Tatars	Currently, only the light blue flag is used, which is now an ethnic flag. The golden colored damğa was used in the upper left corner of the flag and sometimes in the center.
	1917-1918	Religious flag of the Crimean Tatars
	1917-1918	Military flag of the Crimean Tatars

Historical flags

Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1199–1349

Poland and Lithuania

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1349–1569-1587	Banner of Poland
	1561-1569-1587	Royal Banner of Lithuania
	1587-1772	Flag of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Cossack Hetmanat

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of the Zaporozhian Host
		Historical flag of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Russian Empire (1654-1917)

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1710/1721-1858 1883–1917/1918	Civil ensign of Russia Flag of Russia
	1858-1883	Flag of Russia
	1914-1917	Flag of Russia (private use)
	1710/1721-1858	Imperial Standard of Russia
	1858-1917	Imperial Standard of Russia

Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and Austria–Hungary from 1772 to 1918

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	- 1918	Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy, also the flag of the Austrian Empire, from the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 flag of Cisleithanian Austria
	1786-1915	Naval Ensign, Merchant Ensign (until 1869)
	1869-1918	Merchant Ensign of Austria-Hungary
	1915-1918	Naval Ensign
	1815- Late 19th Century	Standard of the Emperor
	Late 19th Century- 1915	Standard of the Emperor
	1915-1918	Standard of the Emperor

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Until 1849	Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria created after 1772 when this previously Polish province had been annexed to Austria.
	1849-1890	Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria
	1890-1918	Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria

Ukrainian People's Republic

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1917	Flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic
	1918-1919	Flag of the West Ukrainian People's Republic and Hutsul Republic
	1917–1921	Naval flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic

Ukrainian State

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1918-1920	Flag of the Ukrainian State and UPR

Royal Family Standards

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1918	Royal Standard of the Hetman of Ukraine
	1918	Royal Standard of the Wife of the Hetman of Ukraine
	1918	Royal Standard of the Prince of the Hetman of Ukraine
	1918	Royal Standard of the Princess of the Hetman of Ukraine

Free Territory

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1918-1921	Flag of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine	See Anarchist_symbolism#Black_flag

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1917–1918	Flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
	1918	Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic
	1919–1929	Flag of the Ukrainian SSR	The first flag was red with the gold Cyrillic sans-serif letters У.С.С.Р. (USSR, initialism for Ukrayinskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika in the Russian language).
	1929–1937	Flag of the Ukrainian SSR	In the 1930s a gold border was added.
	1937–1949	Flag of the Ukrainian SSR	In 1937, a new flag was adopted, with a small gold hammer and sickle added above the gold Cyrillic serif letters У.Р.С.Р. (URSR, for Ukrayins’ka Radyans’ka Sotsialistychna Respublika in the Ukrainian language).
	1949–1991	Flag of the Ukrainian SSR	To comply, the Ukrainian Soviet authorities dropped the lettering and added a blue stripe (⅓ of the width). The Ukrainian SSR adopted this new design as its official flag on November 21, 1949.

Crimea

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Crimean People's Republic	State flag	1917-1918
	Crimean Regional Government	State flag	1918-1919
	Crimean Regional Government	Naval ensign	1921
	Crimean ASSR	State flag	1921-1929
	Crimean ASSR	State flag	1929-1938
	Crimean ASSR	State flag	1938-1945

Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic	State flag	1925-1937
	Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic	State flag	1937-1938
	Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic	State flag	1938-1940

Carpatho-Ukraine

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1939	Flag of the Carpatho-Ukraine

Ukrainian National Government (1941)

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1941	Flag of the Ukrainian National Government
	N/A	Flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army

Reichskommissariat Ukraine (1941–1945)

: Flag of Nazi Germany

Flag	Date	Use	Description
Flags used 1935 – 1945
	1935–1945 1935–1945	National flag[1] Marine jack (Gösch)	A red field, with a white disk with a black swastika, or hakenkreuz, at a 45 degree angle. Disk and swastika are slightly off-centre.
	1920-1945	NSDAP Party flag (Parteiflagge)[1]	A red field, with a white disk with a black swastika, or hakenkreuz, at a 45 degree angle. Disk and swastika are exactly in the centre.
	1935–1945	Merchant flag variant with the Iron Cross
	1938–1945	Reich war flag
	1935–1945	Reich service flag
	1935–1945	Standard of Adolf Hitler
	1935–1945	Flag of the Schutzstaffel (SS)
	1936–1945	Flag of the Ordnungspolizei (OrPo) ("Order Police", the national regular police organization of the Third Reich)

Black Sea Fleet for the transitional period (1992-1995)

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1992	Naval flag of the Black Sea Fleet for the transitional period
	1992	Naval Ensign of the Black Sea Fleet (auxiliary)
	1992	Naval Ensign of the Black Sea Fleet (beacon)
	1992	Naval Ensign of the Black Sea Fleet (rescue)
	1992	Pendant of the Black Sea Fleet (ships)
	1992	Pendant of the Black Sea Fleet (boats)

See also

• Flag of Ukraine
• Shche ne vmerla Ukraina

References

Symbols of Ukraine Official Flag list regions Coat of arms list regions Presidential symbols Flag Collar Bulava Seal Peresopnytsia Gospel National colours Unofficial Glory to Ukraine Vyshyvanka Pysanka Bandura Chervona kalyna Varenyky Bread and salt Borscht Cossack with musket Cossack Mamay Hopak Horilka Songs Shche ne vmerla Ukraina Prayer for Ukraine Oi u luzi chervona kalyna Razom nas bahato, nas ne podolaty Za Ukrainu Zaporizhian March People Taras Shevchenko Volodymyr the Great Yaroslav the Wise Lesya Ukrainka Ivan Franko Bohdan Khmelnytsky Mykola Amosov Stepan Bandera Landmarks Sofiyivsky Park Kiev Pechersk Lavra Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle Khortytsia Chersonesus Saint Sophia Cathedral Khotyn Fortress Seven Wonders of Ukraine Greatest Ukrainians