Flag of Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug

The flag of

Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug (russian: Усть-Орды́нский Буря́тский о́круг; bua, Усть-Ордын (Усть-Ордагай) Буряадай тойрог ), or Ust-Orda Buryatia, is an administrative division of Irkuts ...

, in the

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, is a blue field charged with a white '' argabar'' sun emblem within a golden disc. The disc is surrounded with four golden bezants at the cardinal positions. At the bottom of the flag is a white band charged with a red ''

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'' ornament, which symbolizes the lifestyle in the past and a prosperous future for the Buryat tribes. The blue symbolizes the sky. The white symbolizes cleaness and the heavens. The red symbolizes bravery, fire, warmth, the sun, and blood. The gold symbolizes the light of the sun, richness, and happiness. An earlier design was adopted on July 17, 1997 which consisted of a green field. The field was changed to blue on September 18 of that same year. The proportions are 2:3.

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