Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)

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Day of the National Flag
День Державного прапора України
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Flag of Ukraine
Observed byUkraine
DateAugust 23
Next time23 August 2024 (2024-08-23)
Frequencyannual

23 August is celebrated as the Day of the National Flag (Ukrainian: День Державного прапора України Day of the National Flag of Ukraine) in Ukraine; beginning in 2004.[1][2] 24 July was previously marked as National Flag Day in Kyiv.[2] The first ceremonial raising of the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag in modern times took place on 24 July 1990 at the flagstaff of the Kyiv City Council, one-and-a-half years before the flag was officially adopted as the National flag of the Ukrainian state (early 1992).[2]

Since 1992 Independence Day of Ukraine is celebrated on 24 August.[3] According to the official version, on August 23, 1991 — after the failure of the putsch in Moscow — a group of people's deputies brought a blue-yellow Ukrainian flag into the session hall of the Verkhovna Rada. The consecration of the flag was conducted by the priest of the UAOC Peter Boyk. The Decree of the President of Ukraine, L. Kuchma, "On the Day of the State Flag of Ukraine" No. 987/2004 was tied to this event, a corresponding picture was painted on the wall of the VRU, and this flag, like a relic, is solemnly kept under glass in the VRU museum. The next day, Ukraine declared independence.

Historically the blue-yellow flag is first verifiably documented on 25 June 1848 when the Supreme Ruthenian Council hoisted it over the Lviv (Lemberg) Townhall (Rathaus).

References

  1. ^ Ukraine celebrates National Flag Day Archived 2013-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Xinhua News Agency (23 August 2012)
    Ceremony of hoisting Ukraine's national flag held at presidential administration Archived 2013-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, Kyiv Post (23 August 2011)
  2. ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Україна відзначає День Державного прапора On Tuesday, August 23, all of Ukraine celebrates National Flag Day. Measures to raise the national flag are planned throughout the country. Archived 2013-08-01 at the Wayback Machine, 1+1 (23 August 2011)
  3. ^ How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy Archived 2013-12-11 at the Wayback Machine by Anders Åslund, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009, ISBN 978-0-88132-427-3 (page 185)
    Ukraine Intelligence & Security Activities and Operations Handbook Archived 2016-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, International Business Publications, 2009, ISBN 0739716611 (page 268)

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