The City Emblem and Flag of Ekaterinburg

Новый герб

The present Ekaterinburg's city emblem is approved by the decision of the Ekaterinburg State Duma in 1998 and registered under Number 401 in the Heraldry of the Russian Federation. The emblem was designed by S. Lukanin, G. Dubrovin, A. Ovetchkin, V. Kondyurin and A. Grefenstein. The armorial description says, "In the upper green part there is silver mine (in the form of a draw-well with two handles) and a smelting furnace with dark-red fire flaring inside, the golden lower part is embossed with a sky-blue wavy gold-edged band streaked with silver. The chargers are gold bear and sable, whose tongues are dark-red, collars are like black and golden vair (in two lines) and who stand on the gold ribbon pediment decorated with a silver druse of five crystals. The shield is crowned with engrailed tower and gold garland". The crown was added to the emblem in 2008, symbolizing the status of Ekaterinburg as the administrative center of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

Флаг

Approved by the decision of the Ekaterinburg State Duma in 2008 and registered under number 4023 in the Heraldry of the Russian Federation as the formal symbol of the city government, the city administrative status and position, the unity of its territory and population, historic continuity and local government interests. It is the first and the only official flag of Ekaterinburg within the whole history of the city. The flag constitutes a rectangular cloth, the width- to- length ratio is 2:3, with three horizontal stripes, the width of which is 1/4, 1/2, and 1/4. The charges of Ekaterinburg's emblem are depicted in the center of the green stripe.

The symbols of the flag reproduce those of the emblem of Ekaterinburg: Emerald green - historically territorial color of the Urals. The mine and the furnace symbolize an industrialized city of high scientific, technical and cultural potential. The yellow stripe symbolizes the Ural mountains connecting Europe and Asia, their beauty and grandeur as well as natural resources. The blue bottom stripe symbolizes the Iset river connecting Europe and Asia, the past and the present.