Today, August 22, in Russia celebrate the Day of the National Flag. In Vladivostok, the holiday started with a flash mob - about 60 people carried a tricolor.
The largest in the region. Vladivostok again sets records: on the Day of the National Flag, a huge tricolor unfolds. 150 square meters, more than 10 kg of weight. There are more than fifty people carried it.
Following the tricolor was a colored plume of smoke. On holiday, the citizens of the city flaunted themselves with flowers of the Russian flag.
The holiday at the flag of Russia appeared in 1994. Peter I in 1705 issued the law, according to it which the "blue-red flag" should be raised on "merchant ships of all kinds".
And although the Day of the National Flag of the Russian Federation - is not a holiday, it is widely celebrated throughout the country. Our tricolor was made up of cars, it was drawn by fighters.
And thanks to Vladivostok residents tricolol got into the Guinness Book of Records. "Live" painting in 2013 created 25 thousand people on the Golden Bridge. "