Coat of arms of Poltava Oblast

Coat of arms of Poltava Oblast

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Armiger	Poltava Oblast
Adopted	30 january 1998
Escutcheon	Azure

The Coat of arms of Poltava Oblast is the official coat of arms of Poltava Oblast.

Description

The coat of arms consists of a shield divided into quarters by raspberry lozenge, crossed by argent and azure wavy belt.

In first azure part is gold paty cross.
In second gold part is gules horseshoe.
In third gold part is gules heart.
In fourth azure part is gold wheat sheaf.

In first part of lozenge is gold bow, accompanied by two or stars, in second is gold gates with three towers, accompanied by two gold stars.

Bow with arrow and stars are the elements which went into Poltava and Pyriatyn coats of arms, indicate on historic role the edges in defence of own earths, and also Poltava as administrative centre.
Urban gates with three towers and flagpoles - element eldest of coats of arms, basic Lokhvytsia coat of arms element. It indicates on durability, power, edge inviolability, Cossack traditions.
A water wave - element of Komsomol's'k and Kremenchuk emblems, symbolizes riches of water spaces.
A Cossack cross is symbol on historic colours of Poltava regiments and Myrhorod and Zin'kiv emblems.
A horseshoe is blown about element of patrimonial Ukraine coats of arms - happiness symbol, good, love, consent.
A heart is hetman coat of arms element of P.Polubotok, V.Kochubey, symbolises Poltavschyna as Ukraine heart, her grandeur, spirituality, - earth, beginning by mother country to prominent figures of world significance.
Sheaf is personifies natural resource, earth's fertility, industry of its inhabitants, national traditions.
A Crown is power, firmness, grandeur and glory.

Adopted colours:

Raspberry - most blown about colour of Cossack colours - power, bravery.
Azure means wrestling after freedom, hope.
Or means sun, lightly, welfare, kindness, work, dignity.

History

Coat of arms in the ХVII century
Coat of arms of the Poltava Governorate
Coat of arms of the Poltava Governorate (1878-1918)

External links

Coats of arms of Ukraine

List of coats of arms

Oblasts	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Vinnytsia Volyn Zakarpattia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr

Cities with special status	Kiev Sevastopol

Autonomous republic	Crimea

Administrative centers	Cherkasy Chernihiv Chernivtsi Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Ivano-Frankivsk Kharkiv Kherson Khmelnytskyi Kiev Kirovohrad Luhansk Lutsk Lviv Mykolaiv Odessa Poltava Rivne Sumy Ternopil Uzhhorod Vinnytsia Zaporizhia Zhytomyr

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