The flag of Ukraine is a banner of two equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow. The combination of blue and yellow as a symbol of Ukrainian lands comes from the flag of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia used in the 12th century. As a national flag, the blue and yellow bicolour has been officially used since the 1848 Spring of Nations, when it was hoisted over the Lviv Rathaus. It was officially adopted as a state flag for the first time in 1918 by the short-lived West Ukrainian People's Republic and subsequently used by the Ukrainian People's Republic. When Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, the flag was outlawed and, before 1949, there was no official state flag until adoption of the red-azure flag of the Ukrainian SSR. The blue and yellow flag was provisionally adopted for official ceremonies in September 1991 following Ukrainian independence, before finally officially being restored on 28 January 1992 by the parliament of Ukraine.
The first flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on 10 March 1919 to serve as the symbol of state of the Ukrainian SSR. Details of the official flag changed periodically before the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, but all had as their basis the red flag of the October Revolution. According to the decree of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of Ukrainian SSR on 21 November 1949, the blue in the bottom symbolises the mightiness and beauty of the people, and the blue banner of Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
Transnistria is a region in Eastern Europe that is under the effective control of the self-declared Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic but is recognized by the international community as an administrative unit of Moldova, the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester. The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic uses a red-green-red triband and the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester use the flag of Moldova.
Hertsa or Hertza is a town located in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Hertsa urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine, and has a population of 2,108.
The flag of Crimea is the flag of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea claimed by Ukraine and the Republic of Crimea claimed by Russia. The flag was officially adopted on 24 September 1992 as the flag of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, readopted on 21 April 1999, then readopted on 4 June 2014 as the flag of the Republic of Crimea, annexed by Russian Federation.
Shakhtarsk or Shakhtyorsk is a city in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. Regionally, the city is an administrative urban enclave also consisting of cities Torez and Snizhne and surrounded by Shakhtarsk Raion. It serves as the administrative center of Shakhtarsk Raion which it does not belong to. Its population has been estimated as 48,404 .
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is situated in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia.
Kostyantyn Ivanovich Gryshchenko is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician. Since Ukraine gained independence, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko has served in a succession of senior positions with responsibilities ranging from arms control and regional security to education and public health. He served as Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine (2012–2014), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (2008–2010). Ambassadorial appointments include: Head of Mission of Ukraine to NATO and the Ambassador of Ukraine to Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1998–2000), Ambassador to the United States (2000–2003) and Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2008–2010). In addition to his posts in the Ukrainian Government, Kostyantyn Gryshchenko participated in personal capacity in a number of high-profile bodies focused chiefly on various aspects of regional and international security: 1991 –Deputy Chief Inspector for biological weapons of the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq (UNSCOM); 1995–1998 –Member of Council of Founders, Geneva Center for Security Policy; 1999–2003 Member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters to the UN Secretary General ; 2000–2003 –Member, United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and 2003–2006, Member of the Board of Directors of Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS. Kostyantyn Gryshchenko holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
The flag of the Ivano-Frankivsk Region is one of regional flags of Ukraine. It is a symbol of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast that inherits a historical tradition of using regional symbols and is an attribute of the local government and executive powers.
Viktor Baloha is a Ukrainian politician and the former emergency situations minister.
Serhiy Serhiyovich Ryzhkov was a Ukrainian constructor and ecologist, professor, Director of Scientific-Research Institute of Ecology and Energy-saving, Head of Ecology Department, Rector Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding.
Fabrizio Bertot is an Italian politician, member of the European Parliament from 12 April 2013 to 30 June 2014 for the Berlusconi's party PDL. Ukraine, on 2 May 2018, has forbidden Bertot entry for three years with blocking of the right to dispose of assets and the property belonging. From 2003 to 2012 he was the Major of Rivarolo Canavese for the center-right coalition.
The war in Donbas gave rise to a civil volunteer movement which provides a diverse support to Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
The Tarutyns'kyj steppe is a protected landscape located in Bolhrad Raion, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. It is one of the largest preserved steppe fragments in Ukraine, and of significant local importance.
Prygunov Glib(Ukrainian: Гліб Олександрович Пригунов) is a Ukrainian politician, statesman, and former chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council.
Andriy Ivanovych Nikolayenko is a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, former chairman of the political party Osnova.
Mykhailo Lev is the current acting Head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, lawyer, public and political figure, Head of Sarata Raion State Administration of Odessa Oblast during 2015–2017.
Zaluzhany is a village (selo) in Drohobych Raion, Lviv Oblast, in Western Ukraine.
Volodymyr Tyahlo was a Ukrainian politician.
The Ruthenian lion, Ukrainian lion, or Halychian lion is a golden lion on an azure background. The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Rus, the Ruthenian Voivodeship and the Western Ukrainian People's Republic. Usually, he was depicted as stocky, less often — walking, crowned, with silver or red weapons; such that it rests on a gold or silver rock. The oldest images appear on the seals of n rulers from the XIV century — Yurii I of Galicia, Leo II of Galicia, Yurii II Boleslav, Vladislaus II of Opole. In the XV-XVI centuries the lion was present on the large seals of Kings Władysław II Jagiełło, Alexander Jagiellon, and Sigismund II Augustus as a symbol of Rus, along with the Polish eagle, the Lithuanian pahonia, and the Prussian eagle. As a voivodship emblem of Lwów Land in the form of a lion on a rock known since the XV century. Beginning with the Revolution in the Austrian Empire in 1848, he became one of the political symbols of the Ruthenians (Ukrainians) and the Ukrainian national liberation movement. In modern times it was perceived as the coat of arms of the western Ukrainian lands with the center in Lviv, mainly Halychyna. He was depicted with the emblems of Ukrainian military formations of the twentieth century — the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (1914-1918) and the 14th SS-Volunteer Division "Galicia" (1943-1945). Since 2009 he has been one of the supporter of the project of the large coat of arms of Ukraine. It is used as a coat of arms in Ukrainian and Polish heraldry, in particular on the coats of arms of Lviv, Lviv Oblast, oblast raion, Częstochowa, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, etc. The colors of the coat of arms are the colors of the state flag of Ukraine — yellow (gold) and blue.
