The earliest mention of the flag occurs during the reign of Alexis I, in 1668, and is related to the construction of the first Russian naval ship, the frigate Oryol. Two accounts of the flag's origin connect it to the tricolour used by the Dutch Republic (the flag of the Netherlands). The flag design remained the same until 1993, when the original Russian tricolour was fully restored as the current flag after the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis. Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the newly independent Russian Federation inherited the redesigned flag of the Russian SFSR, and the specifications were formalised by Boris Yeltsin in the State Heraldic Register. The new flag's ratio was 1:2, and the colours consisted of white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom. Shortly after the August Coup in 1991, the Russian SFSR adopted a new flag design similar to the Russian imperial tricolour, though with different dimensions and colour shades. The Russian tricolour was unused for most of the 20th century the Soviet Union deviated from predecessor flag designs by using a plain red flag with a yellow hammer-and-sickle canton.
In 1917, with the establishment of the Russian SFSR after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks abolished the traditional Russian tricolour, though it continued to be flown by the White Movement during the Russian Civil War. However, a decree by Nicholas II in 1896 reinstated the white, blue, and red tricolour as the Russian national flag. The redesigned flag's dimensions were the same, albeit with a different colour scheme: black on the top, gold in the middle, and white on the bottom. It was first raised in 1696, as an ensign for merchant ships under the Tsardom of Russia.Īfter just over a century and a half of usage, uninterrupted by the proclamation of the Russian Empire, the flag was replaced following a decree by Alexander II in 1858. The national flag of the Russian Federation ( Russian: государственный флаг Российской Федерации Gosudarstvenny flag Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is a tricolour of three equal horizontal fields: white on the top, blue in the middle, and red on the bottom.
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