Flag of Agin-Buryat Okrug

Agin-Buryat Okrug


Proportion	2:3
Adopted	July 6, 2001
Design	Vertical tricolour of blue, yellow, and white with a yellow Soyombo symbol at top left
Designed by	Bato Dampilon

The flag of Agin-Buryat Okrug, in the Russian Federation, is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow and white. The flag is charged with a yellow partial Soyombo symbol at the upper end of the blue band. The Soyombo is a cultural symbol of the Mongol people and is also present on the flags of Mongolia and Buryatia.

The flag was designed by Buryat artist, Bato Dampilon. It was adopted on July 6, 2001. The proportions are 2:3.

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Republics	Adygea Altai Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chuvashia Crimea¹ Dagestan Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay–Cherkessia Karelia Khakassia Komi Mari El Mordovia North Ossetia–Alania Sakha Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia

Krais	Altai Kamchatka Khabarovsk Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Perm Primorsky Stavropol Zabaykalsky

Oblasts	Amur Arkhangelsk Astrakhan Belgorod Bryansk Chelyabinsk Irkutsk Ivanovo Kaliningrad Kaluga Kemerovo Kirov Kostroma Kurgan Kursk Leningrad Lipetsk Magadan Moscow Murmansk Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod Novosibirsk Omsk Orenburg Oryol Penza Pskov Rostov Ryazan Sakhalin Samara Saratov Smolensk Sverdlovsk Tambov Tomsk Tula Tver Tyumen Ulyanovsk Vladimir Volgograd Vologda Voronezh Yaroslavl

Federal cities	Moscow St. Petersburg Sevastopol¹

Autonomous oblasts	Jewish

Autonomous okrugs	Chukotka Khanty-Mansi Nenets Yamalo-Nenets

¹ Internationally recognized as part of Ukraine.

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