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 Chrystian Kretowicz, 13 Jul 2008
 Chrystian Kretowicz, 13 Jul 2008
Established in 1993
Formerly Irkutsk Polytechnical Institute
link to flag and emblem.
Chrystian Kretowicz, 13 Jul 2008
I am sure that this is purely coincidental, but the color scheme used by the
Irkutsk State Technical University has a strong similarity to that of the Most
Serene Republic of San Marino! The flag layout is different, but the shade of
blue used on both flags seems very similar.
Ron Lahav, 14 Jul 2008
 image by Ivan Sache, 25 October 2018
 
image by Ivan Sache, 25 October 2018
Kazan Federal University was formerly the Kazan State 
University. 
The Kazan Imperial University was chartered in November 
1804 by Emperor Alexander I. It was renamed in 1925 after Vladimir Ulyanov 
Lenin, who studied Law at the university. The status of Federal University was 
granted in 2010 by the Russian government.
Kazan University has been the 
place of major scientific breakthroughs. The Polish linguist Jan Niecislaw 
Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929) founded the Kazan Linguistic School, 
pioneering the study of oriental languages and cultures in Europe. The Baltic 
German chemist Karl Ernst Claus (1796-1864) discovered in 1844 a new chemical 
element that he named ruthenium (symbol, Ru; atomic number, 44), the Latin name 
of Russia. The mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856), former Rector of 
the university, developed the non-Euclidean, hyperbolic geometry that would be 
named for him.
The Kazan Department of the Soviet Academy of Science was founded in Kazan in 
1945 by physicists evacuated form Moscow and Leningrad, including Vitaly 
Ginzburg (1916-2009; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2003), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894-1984; 
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1978), Igor Tamm (1895-1971; Nobel Prize in Physics in 
1958) and Lev Landau (1908-1968; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1962). Kazan State 
University was inscribed in 1996 to the Register of Cultural Heritage Sites of 
the Russian Federation.
https://kpfu.ru/eng/ 
- University website
The flag of Kazan Federal University is blue with 
the university's emblem, counter-colored.
Photos
http://english.hunnu.edu.cn/info/1145/1332.htm 
http://asoiu.edu.az/photos/shares/News/df75f4589e23d5d0fc4ccd5347893514.jpeg
 image by Ivan Sache, 25 October 2018
 
image by Ivan Sache, 25 October 2018
The table flag of Kazan Federal University is white with the 
university's emblem surrounded by the university's name.
Photos
https://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F743322494/iran.03.jpg 
http://english.hunnu.edu.cn/info/1145/1332.htm 
Ivan Sache, 25 October 2018
 from University website, 18 Oct 2011
 from University website, 18 Oct 2011
Here is the URL
 for the Kazan State University in Russia.
Valentin Poposki, 4 Nov 2005
Blue field, a representation of the main University building in white
surrounded by gold laurel branches (top) and oak? branches (bottom);
above the building, the name of the institution in Cyrillic letters
and below, the year of foundation ‘1804’, all in gold; near the hoist,
a vertical ornamental strip consisting of a meander between two narrow
stripes, all in gold.
Jan Mertens, 23 Jun 2008
It has recently been renamed "Kazan (Volga region) Federal University" /
Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет. The logo has changed accordingly and presumably the flag as well, if it is still in use.
Andrew Weeks, 18 Oct 2011
 image by Ivan Sache, 28 June 2017
 
image by Ivan Sache, 28 June 2017
Нижегородский государственный университет им. Н.И. Лобачевского (ННГУ) (English: 
Nizhny Novgorod (State) University (UNN) N.I. Lobachevsky , also known as 
Lobachevsky University, was established on January 17, 1916 as one of the three 
initial Народных университетов России (English: People's Universities of 
Russia). The first idea of establishing the University first arose in 1896, when 
the city was preparing for the opening of the XVI Всероссийской художественной и 
промышленной выставки (English: XVI All-Russian art and industrial exhibition) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Russia_Exhibition_1896). 
On the wave of revolutionary reforms in 1905, at a meeting of the City Duma on 
October 19, the City Head of AM. Memorial suggested organizing a People's 
University in Nizhny Novgorod.
On March 28, 1918 it became the first 
State Higher Educational Institution of Soviet Russia as proclaimed by the 
Губернский исполком (English: Provincial Executive Committee (of
Nizhny Novgorod) later, on May 22. Then, on June 28 the 
closure of the политехнического института (English: Polytechnic Institute (in 
Nizhny Novgorod)) was transformed into a State University properly. From 1932 to 
March 20, 1956, its name was State University of Gorky (http://www.unn.ru/site/about/news/60-let-so-dnya-prisvoeniya-nizhegorodskomu-gosudarstvennomu-universitetu-imeni-n-i-lobachevskogo) 
– from 1932 to 1990 the city of Nizhny Novgorod was known as Gorky – and from 
March 20, 1956, through Указом Президиума Верховного совета РСФСР (English: 
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR) (http://www.unn.ru/site/images/history/decree-1956.jpg 
in an
effort headed by А.А. Андронов (English: AA. Andronov) and from 1956 to 
1990 the Lobachevsky State University of Gorky after great Russian mathematician 
Nikolai Lobachevsky."
Sources:
http://www.unn.ru/site/about/znakomstvo-s-universitetom/istoriya 
http://eng.unn.ru/about/history 
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._I._Lobachevsky_State_University_of_Nizhny_Novgorod
Its flag is a white horizontal flag displaying
the logo in the 
middle and below the full name of the institution, as seen here (first desktop 
flag from left to right):
http://eng.unn.ru/images/unn_international.jpg (source:
http://eng.unn.ru/unn-international/partners).
An image of the flag:
https://sites.google.com/site/sc10scc/_/rsrc/1468853543965/the-teams/nnsu/NNSU_thumb.jpg 
(source: 
https://sites.google.com/site/sc10scc/the-teams/nnsu)
For additional 
information go to UNN (University of Nizhny Novgorod) (official website)
http://www.unn.ru/ 
Esteban Rivera, 
28 June 2017
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856), Professor at the University of Kazan 
(1822), is best known for the formal definition and exploration of the 
non-Euclidian hyperbolic geometry. His views were so outrageously innovative 
that the venerable St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences refused the publication of 
his seminal paper "A concise outline of the foundations of geometry".
Ivan Sache, 28 June 2017
 from University website
 from University website
Valentin Poposki has ferreted out the web site of Lomonosov Moscow State
University, which has the university's flags. The url for the
university is http://www.msu.ru/info, 
and the site is multilingual. The site
is very well designed and presented, and in fact if it were not for
the .ru designator one might almost think that it belonged to one of
those American universities which use MSU as an abbreviation, such as
Michigan State University, Mississippi State University, Morehead State
University (KY), etc.
Ron Lahav, 4 Nov 2005
Mikhail Lomonosov Moscow State University flag at:
http://www.msunews.ru/news/1762/
Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
 from Victor Lomantsov's site
 from Victor Lomantsov's siteReported by Chrystian Kretowicz (28 Dec 2008) at another site which had stolen it from Victor.
 Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
 Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
flag at: http://www.nsaem.ru/news/?id=1825 [link now dead]
Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
 Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
 Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
flag and emblem at
http://www.omgau.ru/content/view/258/59/
Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 May 2024
 
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 May 2024
At 
http://omsu.ru/bitrix/templates and
https://commons.wikimedia.org we 
can see the logo of Omsk Dostoyevski State University, which is a rendition 
of its abbreviated name – "ОмГУ" (full official name in
Russian 
Омский 
государственный университет имени Ф. М. Достоевского; incorporated as 
Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего 
образования "Омский государственный университет имени 
Ф. М. Достоевского" – 
ФГАОУ ВО ОмГУ).
In this logo, the four letterforms are mishapen in 
non-calligraphic nor typographic fanciful ways to suggest, I presume, the 
variety of offered courses or some such. The letter "Г" ("G") is rendered as 
a flag pole hoisting a flying horizontal tricolor flag – very likely meant as 
a rendition of the national flag. As the logo is monochromatic,
shown as light blue on white, the three stripes on the flag are shown by
means of two thin background-colored lines, in a sort of Gambian-style triband.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 May 2024
 from Victor Lomantsov's site
 from Victor Lomantsov's siteReported by Chrystian Kretowicz (28 Dec 2008) at another site which had stolen it from Victor.

Image made after photo found by M. Revnivtsev at http://www.rgo.ru/ (official
WEB-page of the society)
Victor Lomantsov, 9 Jun 2011
"The Russian Geographical Society (Russian: Ру́сское географи́ческое о́бщество 
«РГО») (RGO) is a learned society based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It promotes 
exploration and geography with research programmes in fields 
includingoceanography and ethnography. The society was founded on 6 August 1845 
in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917, it was 
known as the Imperial Russian Geographical Society."
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Geographical_Society 
For additional information, go to: RGO 
(official website)  
This picture shows a close up of the RGO flag but in a lighter blue version 
than the one reported.
Source: 
http://rt.com/news/russia-loch-ness-lake-269/ 
Esteban Rivera, 20 April 2014
 image located by Krystof Huk, 25 July 2016
 
image located by Krystof Huk, 25 July 2016
Source: 
http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/mod_inst.htm 
Krystof Huk, 25 
July 2016
 image by Victor Lomantsov, 25 July 2016
 
image by Victor Lomantsov, 25 July 2016
I think they changed the flag several times. For example, at
http://www.projectnext.ru/education/?id=226 we see another version (very 
small).
 Victor Lomantsov, 25 July 2016
 image by Victor Lomantsov, 25 July 2016
 
image by Victor Lomantsov, 25 July 2016
An earlier version is also seen. The detail of the emblem can be seen
here.
 Victor Lomantsov, 25 July 2016
 Victor Lomantsov, 15 Jul 2008
 Victor Lomantsov, 15 Jul 2008
flag at
http://www.samgtu.ru/newspaper/2006/14/images/11.jpg [dead link]
Chrystian Kretowicz, 14 Jul 2008
 Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
 Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
flag at:
http://museum.sgutikd.ru/images/flag.jpg
Chrystian Kretowicz, 27 Dec 2008
 from University website
 from University website
The flag of the Southern Ural State University located
in the City of Chelyabinsk in Russia. Flag is 
here.
Valentin Poposki, 11 Nov 2005

image by Victor Lomantsov, 21 April 2014 
When searching for informantion on the Russian Geographical 
Society I came across the following
pictures and would like to know if this entity has different flag versions 
(variants) or if they are complimentary flags for its Departments (Divisions).
Source: 
http://rt.com/news/russia-loch-ness-lake-269/
The flag reads "Underwater Research Group" and features a golden coat of arms.
Esteban Rivera, 20 April 2014