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António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 May 2010
See also: Mordovia
Saransk (Саранск), in Moksha, Saranosh (Саранош), is the capital of Mordovia.
The flag shows the fox and the arrows on the main field of an inequal
horizontal tricolor of white (2/3rds of the total height), red, and blue;
specs thus (6+1+1):12 = 2:3. The legal text, «Act #140 of Council of
Deputies of the City District of Saransk» as quoted in the Wikimedia
Commons page, in Viktor Lomancov’s website dated of 2008.09.10
< http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/subjects/towns/saransk.htm >,
states that the stripes are «_белого, маренового
(темно-красного) и
темно-синего_» — «white, Wild Madder colored (dark red) and dark
blue».
Note yet another way to refer to dark red, and that dark blue is
prescribed, not just a translation of _sinniĭ_ to distinguish from
_goluboĭ_ (skyblue, light blue) as usual when translating Russian
vexillological texts. The same text prescribes «_красную
(червленую) лису
»(…)« три красных (червленых) стрелы_», giving a
different word for the
shade of red of the fox and arrows — _krasniĭ (ĉervlënyĭ)_, this being
regular medium red.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 17 May 2010