Monday, December 6, 2010

Russian Fraternal Twin Flags: pt 5

Amur Province & Magadan Provice

Flag of Magadan Province


The flags of Russia's Amur and Magadan pair up harmoniously by colour and design. Harmoniously both flags have blue waves with white crests. The waves of Amur are soft with only one white crest, while the waves of Magadan are sharper and it has two white crests. The upper-sky portion of both flags are red.

Both provinces are in East Asia, next to China and Japan. Magadan has a shoreline on the Sea of Okhotsk while Amur Province lies along the northern border of the Amur River.

Flag of Short lived
Far East Republic

Magadan & Amur province were both a part of the short lived Far East Republic from 1920-1922, under president Krasnoshchyokov.

The Amur River makes the Top 10 List of Longest Rivers of the World - at position number nine. Amur in Chinese literally means Black Imperial River. Amur Province is landlocked but Magadan has a shoreline but it freezes over in the winter.

Flag of Amur Province
aka the Black Imperial Province

The Russians arrived to this hemisphere in the 1600s, in the same era that Virginia and Massachusetts were settled. Both regions have cool summers and bitter winters. Certainly the residents of Alaska would feel comfortable in Magadan, while people from Idaho could mistake Amur for home. Maybe some day Russia will make Amur tater-tots via an Ida-Amur Company?


Learn more about Magadan on YOUTUBE
RUSSIA TODAY VIDEOS









Magadan
General www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/search/0/kw2CdkIaEfI
Stalin's Gulags www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/search/1/P_CUsnmK98E
Natural Resources www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/search/2/xpwgMPyuuN8

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