Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District coat of arms

The appearance of the coat of arms of the autonomous district (from the Law of the Yamal Coat of Arms (N41-ZAO d/d October 13, 2003).

1. The coat of arms of the autonomous district consists of an armorial shield topped with a crown; all this is held by two polar bears. Against the azure background of the armorial shield there is a going white (silver) reindeer accompanied above on the left by North Star with four rays from the same metal, the left one from which is shorter that the others. The shield is crested with a traditional golden district crown of a special look: again, with a golden flame on the middle spike and an azure topping. As the shield supports we can see silver polar bears with dark red mouths and black noses and claws. They are standing on silver snow-covered ice-floes, joined with an azure ribbon featuring an ornamental pattern corresponding to white-blue-red horizontal stripes on the flag of the autonomous district.

2. The appearance of the crown: a golden decorated hoop with seven visible pointed spikes (five on the front side of the hoop); the front middle spike is decorated and topped with a golden image of a flame; the hoop of the crown is also decorated.

3. The images of the coat of arms of the autonomous district in multicolored and black-and-white versions are depicted in annexes 1 and 2 to the present Law.

4. A volume multicolored image of the coat of arms of the autonomous district is kept in a permanent exposition of the State institution Yamal-Nenets District Museum-Exhibition Complex named after I.S. Shemanovsky.

The official interpretation of the coat of arms of the autonomous district

1. The coat of arms of the autonomous district is compiled according to set armorial rules. It is, to some extend, a monument of succession of region history and culture which reflects its nature and climatic peculiarities and the key activities of the local population.

2. In working out the coat of arms of the autonomous district there were used four basic armorial colors: azure, white (silver), red, and golden. Every color symbolizes something: azure - a symbol of grandeur, creation, beauty, a color of the sky and water (seas, rivers, lakes); white (silver) - a symbol of purity, kindness, rebirth, independence, pure thoughts and intentions, the color of white snows; red - a symbol of life and unity; golden - a symbol of power, wealth, justice, generosity. Gold in the coat of arms of the autonomous district allegoristically reveals the unique northern nature, inexhaustible riches of the resources of the autonomous district.

3. Reindeer symbolizes power and independence of the terrain.

The coat of arms of Yamal was enrolled to the State Heroldia under the President of Russian Federation with N584.

Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District flag

Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District flag was accepted by the State Duma of Yamal on November 28, 1996, and approved by the Governor of the district Yuri Neyelov on December 9 (the Law of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District About the Flag of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District N47). According to the Law:

"Article 2. The Flag of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District is a rectangular cloth of azure color. At a distance of one seventh from the bottom of the flag there is a white-blue-red horizontal pattern stretching from the flagpole to the right edge of the cloth; its total width is one fifth of the width of the flag. The width of the white pattern, represented as ornament of geometrically regular figures "Reindeer antlers", is eight tenths of the total width of the horizontal pattern. The red and blue stripes are the same in width and correspond to the width of the ornament footing, i.e. each is equal to one tenth of the total width of the horizontal pattern. Each unit forming the ornament is diamond-shaped and takes 1/1350 of all the area of the flag.

Each ornament consists of 9 equal diamonds. The proportion of the flag width to its length is 2:3.

On April 23, 2003, at Yamal State Duma setting they passed the Law About Amendments to the Law About the Flag of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.