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The main celebrations of the 850th Moscow anniversary
occured in the week-end of 1997.09.07-08
and the city was massively decorated with bounting and
flags. From every street lamp pole in the main avenues
and city center streets
groups of three approx. 50×75cm flags waved in the wind.
They were of four types: Russian
(sometimes it was sleeved upside down, giving to the
celebration an odd serbian
flavour), Moscow City
and two kinds of anniversary flags;
two logos were extensively used in anniversary memorabilia
(along with less used ones), and flags were made out
of both:
António Martins, 21 and 25 Oct 1997
This has a simplified Moscow coat of arms
(red and white only) with "850" on a counterchief. Around the shield
(from 10 o’clock to 2 o’clock) a 3-part blue scroll with "1147
МОСКВА 1997" in blue. A hand waver at
the Ŝeremethevo2 international airport (Moscow) measured
20×15 cm.
António Martins, 25 Oct 1997
This flag I did not saw when I was in Moscow in the eve of
the celebration days, but, for my big surprize I found here in
Ĉeboksary (two years and 700 km away),
in window sticker format: It consists of a russian
tricolor superimposed with the same logo as the previous,
but this time it shown lined in black and with a darker shade of blue in the
scroll (darker than the flag’s middle stripe). I repeat that I
didn’t saw this one at the time (and Moscow was heavily decorated with
small flags in lamp posts and fassades), but it should have existed in some
quantity.
António Martins, 25 Jul 1999
This one was much more seldom than the first. It shows
also the Moscow coat of arms, full color, in in a shield with a white old
style "МОСКВА" in counter chief,
both (shield and counter chief) outlined gray. A more sophisticated scroll,
dark yellow, has centrally "850" on it, and laterally "1147"
and "1997"; a medal with a head profile of the city’s founder,
Ûriĭ Dolgorukiĭ (Юрий
Долгорукий
— Yuriy The Long-Armed), pends from the bottom. Crowning the shield
another dark yellow folded ribbon with the russian coat
of arms on the middle. This flag was mostely also in white background,
but I spotted also some red ones (below).
António Martins, 25 Oct 1997 and 02 Jun 1999
Above it is said that the 2nd flag come in two
variants, white and red, less often.
António Martins, 2 Feb 2010