Flag of Ukraine Performed: Bogdan Halenda and Ivan Danilov
Flag of Ukraine • The national flag was officially adopted for the first time in 1918 by a short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic. The insignia remained unchanged by the successive government of Pavlo Skoropadsky, and then by the Directorate of Ukraine. During the Soviet era, Bolsheviks had been using red and later red-blue flags as the official flag of the Ukrainian SSR. The blue and yellow flag was officially restored in 1992 following Ukraine celebrates Flag Day each year on August 23.
History A modern interpretation of the meaning of the colors used in the Ukrainian flag is that the color blue represents the color of the sky, and yellow symbolizes the lush golden wheat fields of this country. This association is thought to have been developed in the mid nineteenth century. The roots of Ukrainian national symbols come from before Christian times when yellow and blue prevailed in traditional ceremonies, reflecting fire and water.
Short independence: 1917– 1920 Both blue–yellow and yellow–blue flags were widely used during the Ukrainian struggle for independence in 1917– 1920. At present, there are no reliable sources that indicate that an official flag was declared by the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1917– 1918. Some sources mention that the yellow–blue was adopted by Tsentralna Rada on March 29, 1918[3] Other sources point out that no hard proof of such decision exists. [4] Instead, they refer to the decision on the Fleet Flag, which was set to be light blue–yellow as an indication that the official flag was light blue–yellow.
Soviet Ukraine: 1922– 1993 • The Soviet Ukraine, similar to other Soviet republics, used a red flag with the abbreviation “USSR " or " USSR " (Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, or Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1936) in gold in the top left corner. In 1937 the hammer and sickle symbol in gold was added to the flag.
Postwar Ukraine • In 1947 the Soviet republics, including Ukraine, adopted new flags instead of the previous featureless ones. The new Ukrainian flag consisted of a red (top, 2/3) and a blue (bottom, 1/3) stripes, with the golden star, hammer and sickle in the top left corner.
Return of the national flag • Under the influence of Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika and Glasnost years, the individual Soviet republics had strengthened their sense of national unity, which led to the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. This concerned the three Baltic states and Western Ukraine, which were the last territories annexed into Soviet Union. These efforts were accompanied with attempts to restore the respective historical national symbols. In 1988, the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR re-established Lithuania's historic coat of arms as the state symbol. The Parliaments of Latvia and Estonia soon followed.
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