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The new flag of Penza Region is described at
https://penzavzglyad.ru/news/129365/c-1-iyunya-penzenskaya-oblast-obrela-novyy-flag.
The regional law “On the Flag of the Penza Region” was adopted by the Legislative Assembly on April 15, 2022,
and came into force on 1 June 2022. According to the press center of the government of the Penza region, the flag of the Penza region is now a rectangular panel of green and yellow stripes with a multi-color image of the coat of arms of the Penza region with three golden sheaves.
The green color on the flag symbolizes health and life growth, red - life-affirming strength, courage, celebration, beauty and work, and yellow - respect and intelligence, wealth and stability, light and spirituality.
The regional government added that the former flag with the image of the Savior Not Made by Hands from June 1, 2022 acquires the status of the standard of the head of the Penza region.
Paraskevas Renesis, 4 August 2022
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The traditional Penza coat of arms is completely unrelated to the
flag.
António Martins, 21 Jan 2003
It is vert, three bundles of wheat Or on a ground of the first.
Blue colour for the back ground is a common mistake.
Victor Lomantsov, 21 Jan 2003
At Regnum.RU
there’s a text about the adoption of the flag of Penza oblast.
Nothing is official but the version of 3 horizontal stripes of
yellow, green and red (the green stripe being larger than the 2
others) with the 3 garbs from the arms on the
green stripe seems to have good chances to be adopted.
Pascal Gross, 07 Oct 2002
Another variant [mentioned at
Regnum.RU]
would be a green flag with the 3 garbs in the center.
Pascal Gross, 07 Oct 2002
This one is therefore a banner of the arms.
António Martins, 24 Jan 2003
image by Tomislav Šipek, 23 February 2020
According to:
https://penzavzglyad.ru/news/129365/c-1-iyunya-penzenskaya-oblast-obrela-novyy-flag
Penza oblast has a new flag since June 1, 2022. The previous flag is now the flag
of the Governor.
Paraskevas Renesis, 4 August 2022
This flag proposal [previously used as flag of the region] was introduced by chairman Victor Lazutkin. The flag is
golden yellow with a vertical green (grassy) stripe along the hoist. In the center
of flag the symbolic image of Saviour Nerukotvorny is located. As explained in the project,
the green color symbolizes nature in the region, its
forests, and also fertility, eternal life and health. Yellow symbolizes fields,
wisdom, knowledge, light, abundant crops, prospect. The symbolic image of Saviour Nerukotvorny symbolizes spirituality, unity, national revival.
Under such banners with Saviour Nerukotvorny’s image Russian troops
struggled in Kulikovo field, in the Crimea and in Livonia, and Yermak under
this flag mastered Siberia. Arrangement on the flag of the symbolic means of
Saviour developers connect also with the nationwide status of the Christian
holidays noted in Penza region — honey, apple and bread Saviours, who
fall at the end of the summer.
Mark Sensen, 17 Nov 2002, translating from
58region.ru
It is almost an exact replica of the icon which used to adorn the
Church of Spas. The exact details of the flag remain to be worked out.
A prototype is on public view in a Penza museum.
Phil Nelson, 09 Jan 2003, quoting from
DeSoto Times
The design includes an unmistakable Soviet element — the
vertical bar at the hoist, also used in
many other Russian subnational flags.
António Martins, 12 Jan 2003
At 58region.Ru there is a
photo of the flag and when you click on it you see a bigger photo of it. You
can also click on the text under the flag in the upper left corner, there is
an explanation (all in Russian) about the flag. If I’m correct than the ratio
is 5:8.
Mello Luchtenberg, 17 Nov 2002
For some reason the proposal is to center the face on the flag, not on
the golden field.
The website 58region.RU
says that this flag is only a proposal, to be considered by the Legislative
Assembly during its current session. But the heraldry site
Geraldika.RU,
gives the date of adoption as 15 November 2002, two days after the opening
of the session.
John Ayer, 18 Nov 2002
The head represents the Holy Face and the banner with this head was shown
in the war of Kulikovo Pole in 1380. It is black or purple, historians don’t
agree on the color.
Arnaud Leroy, 18 Nov 2002
The icon on which this image is based is from the late XII-early XIII
centuries, and is preserved in the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow).
"Нерукотворный"
means "not made by hands", that is, a miraculous image, like that of the
Virgin of Guadalupe. Such images enjoy great
prestige in the Russian Orthodox Church, as I understand.
John Ayer, 18 Nov 2002
Having tried to learn something about Orthodox iconography a few years back,
I believe that any given "Нерукотворный"
icon is not necessarily "not made by hands" but that the original pattern of
the icon — in Latin the "vera icon" which is of course an anagram of
"Veronica" [as in St. Veronica, who is said to have wept Jesus’ face in the
Via Sacra; the towel was miraculously imprinted with the Saviour’s
likeness] — was not made by hands. So in this case, at least, the fact that
there are many such icons is not absurd on the face of it (no pun intended).
Joe McMillan, 19 Nov 2002
In 1380 the realm of the Golden Horde was
threatened by internal strife between throne pretenders. One of them was Mamai,
who was met by a host of Muscovy warriors, led by Prince Dmitrii Ivanovich.
After a fierce battle (not war) the Muscovites prevailed on the field of
Kulikovo — Куликово
Поле, now in the southeast of
Tula oblast, Russia. The victory gained
Dmitrii the epithet "Donskoi", "of the Don". Actually it seems that
the place is not exactly known: Mamai and Dmitrii met "beyond the Don River"
(Задонщина, title
of a famous epic.)
Jarig Bakker, 18 Nov 2002,
quoting
Charles J. Halperin (1985): Russia and the Golden Horde
According to the legend, Ivan the Terrible
stopped in Penza on a journey through central Russia and promised to present
an icon of Jesus on his way back. Although Ivan took a different route back,
one of his aides presented the promised icon to the locals
John Ayer, 12 Dec 2002, translating from
The
Moscow Times
Photos of the flag can be seen at
https://www.penzainform.ru/news/social/2013/08/16/spasateli_podnyali_nad_elbrusom_flag_penzenskoj_oblasti.html
https://pikabu.ru/story/pss_paren_ne_khochesh_nemnogo_penzenskoy_oblasti_3026871
Tomislav Šipek, 23 February 2020