Flag of Chechnya

Not to be confused with the flag of Tatarstan.

The flag of Chechnya (Chechen: Нохчийчоьнан байракх, romanized: Noxçiyçönan bayraq) is a rectangle with sides in the ratio 2:3 representing the Chechen Republic, a republic of Russia. The flag is composed of three horizontal bars of, from top to bottom: green, representing Islam; white; and red; superimposed on them is a narrow vertical white band at the hoist, containing the national ornament, a design of four golden scroll shapes.

Chechen Republic

Proportion	2:3
Adopted	June 22, 2004; 21 years ago (2004-06-22)
Design	A horizontal tricolor of green (representing Islam), white (representing peace or the Caucasus Mountains) and red (representing bloodshed). The national ornament is at the white band at the hoist.
Use	Standard of the president of the Chechen Republic
Adopted	2020

This flag, introduced in 1982, is primarily used by the government of Chechnya while the pro-independence flags are commonly used by opposition forces.

Historic flags

From 1957 to 1978, the Soviet flag of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR was based on the flag of the Russian SFSR with the addition of a blue vertical bar on the hoist side and the abbreviated name of the Republic (НГӀАССР in Chechen and Ingush, and ЧИАССР in Russian).

In 1978, these abbreviated names were replaced with the full versions: ЧЕЧЕНО-ИНГУШСКАЯ АССР in Russian, НОХЧ-ГӀАЛГӀАЙН АССР in Chechen, and НОХЧ-ГӀАЛГӀАЙ АССР in Ingush.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
		Flag of Dzurdzuk and Princedom of Simsim	Plain dark red flag
		The flag of Chechnya from the end of 1785 until March 8, 1840
	19th century	Flag of the Caucasian Imamate
	1919–1920	Flag of the North Caucasian Emirate	A plain green flag with a crecent tilted to face upwards, and 3 stars on the top.
		Flag of the Mountain Republic
		Flag of Ali Mitaev
	1937–1944	Flag of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR
	1957–1978	Flag of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR
	1978–1991	Flag of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR

1991–2000

Several flags have been used by the supporters of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. The most common of these is the green flag with the red and white stripes. Its proportions are approximately 7:11. The color scheme is green, white, red, white, green, with the upper two-thirds of the flag in green and the remaining one third in white, red, white and green stripes of equal width, the width ratio of which is 8:1:1:1:1.^[1] Another well-known example is similar to this flag but has the country's coat of arms incorporated into the design. Each color is meant to symbolize an aspect of the Chechen national character. Green is the color of life, red symbolizes the bloodshed in the struggle for freedom and white represents the road to a bright future.^[1] These flags were mainly used by supporters of Dzhokhar Dudayev, Aslan Maskhadov and their successors. Apart from these several other designs have been used by different factions of the independentist movement, and even single sides used different flags at the same time.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1991–2000	National flag of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
	1991–2000	Variant flag of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria	National Flag of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria with coat of arms.
	1991-2000	Variant flag of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria	National Flag of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria with the bottom green stripe removed.
	1990–1996	Flag of the All-National Congress of the Chechen People	National flag of the All-National Congress of the Chechen People
	2005–2007	Flag used by the Caucasus Emirate

Loyalist opposition

The pro-Moscow opposition to Dudayev used a flag of similar design with the main difference being the inversion of the red and white stripes. ^[2] It has not been used since it was replaced by the current flag of the Chechen Republic.

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	1991–2004	Pro-Russian Chechen flag.
	1993- 1995	Flag of the Provisional Council of the Chechen Republic, Umar Avturkhanov's faction.

Other flags

Administrative divisions

Flag	Date	Use
	2000?–Present	Flag of Grozny	Green background with the red and white stripes, and a drawing of the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque on the green side.
	2010–present	Flag of Argun
	?–2010
	?–present	Flag of Achkhoy-Martanovsky District
	?–present	Flag of Groznensky District
	2021–present	Flag of Gudermessky District
	2020–2021
	?–present	Flag of Itum-Kalinsky District
	?–present	Flag of Kurchaloyevsky District
	?–present	Flag of Nadterechny District
	?–present	Flag of Naursky District
	?–present	Flag of Nozhay-Yurtovsky District
	?–present	Flag of Sernovodsky District
	?–present	Flag of Shalinsky District
	?–present	Flag of Sharoysky District
	?–present	Flag of Shatoysky District
	?–present	Flag of Shelkovskoy District
	?–present	Flag of Urus-Martanovsky District
	?–present	Flag of Vedensky District

Gallery

Flag	Dste	Use	Description
	2020–Present	Adat People's Movement
	2007–2016	Caucasus Emirate	A plain black flag with the Shahada on the middle written in white, and a sword on the bottom, modeled after the flag of Saudi Arabia.
External link	?–Present	Flag used by the Kadyrovites	Identical to the current flag of Chechnya, but with the picture of Akhmat Kadyrov on the center.[3]

See also

• Coat of arms of the Chechen Republic