🇷🇺 On August 22, Russia celebrates National Flag Day, established by Presidential Executive Order On National Flag Day of the Russian Federation dated August 20, 1994.

#OTD, we pay tribute to the official state symbol of Russia, which, along with its emblem and anthem, marks its sovereignty and independence, and reaffirms the continuity of many generations of the country’s multiethnic people.

⚓️ The Russian tricolor is more than three centuries old. Peter the Great is considered the creator: in 1705, he issued an order according to which they should raise a white-blue-and-red flag “on all merchant ships.” However, it was only given official national flag status in 1896, on the eve of the coronation of Nicholas II.

On December 25, 2000, the Federal Constitutional Law On the State Flag of the Russian Federation was adopted, under which the state flag of Russia was a rectangular panel of three equal horizontal stripes: the top one was white, the middle one was blue and the bottom one was red.

⚪️🔵🔴 It is believed that white represents peace and dignity; blue, loyalty and honesty; and red, courage and valour.

Today, the tricolor has firmly become part of our lives as an integral element of Russian statehood, a symbol of the unity of the people, their devotion to the Fatherland, and their readiness to defend Russia’s national interests.

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Moscow Zoo Live Streamings Hit 7 Million Views!

📌 Throughout August, live streams from the Moscow Zoo are available. Want to watch pandas, capybaras, and a grumpy cat-like manul named Timofey from home? Tune into the Moscow Zoo’s live streams (7:30 AM – 9:00 PM daily) at zoo.mos.ru.
Since its launch last fall, the project has racked up 7 million visits, with half from Moscow and the rest from across Russia. 69 cameras cover 20 enclosures, with the most popular stars being hippos, orangutans, lynxes, and meerkats.

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2⃣ I want to share with you the history of the founding of the capital of the Jewish Autonomous Area. The city’s history begins in 1912 when the State Duma adopted a decision to settle territories along the Amur Railway. Initially, the Tikhonkaya Station was established, named after the farmstead —Tikhonkaya Hill.
Near the station, a settlement was founded, which in 1928 was transformed into the working settlement of the Tikhonkaya Station. By 1928, 623 people lived there, with 237 scattered rural houses, and a primary school, post office and cooperative shop had been built. The Tikhonkaya settlement served as a base for receiving settlers and supplying the resettlement area.
In March 1928, a resolution was made to populate free lands in the Priamurye strip of the Far Eastern Krai with Jewish workers. The decision of the Soviet government to designate Tikhonkaya Station for a Jewish settlement was influenced by several factors.
Settlements of Jews established in small localities connected the Trans-Siberian Railway with the Amur River valley.
📌 In April 1928, the first settlers began arriving, and a total of 856 people arrived during the year. In the early years, a significant number of Jewish settlers arrived, and cooperatives began to be established: tailoring, shoemaking, and brick-making (by 1929, the first 100 000 bricks had been produced).
In the 40th issue of The Ogonyok magazine dated 30 September 1928, A. Ror published an essay noscriptd “Traveling through Bira-Bishan” about the first 150 Jewish settlers who lived in the settlement under the leadership of L. G. Baskin.
On 10 October 1931, the settlement of Tikhonkaya was classified as a working settlement and renamed Birobidzhan.
As of 1 January 1932, the population of Birobidzhan was 1.216 men and 1.324 women.
In the early 1930s, about 1.400 Jewish immigrants arrived in Birobidzhan from abroad, including the USA, Argentina, Europe, Palestine and world’s other countries and areas. By early 1936, the population of Birobidzhan had grown to around 12.000 people.
By 1939, the city had organized railway, pedagogical, and medical schools. The regional centre began publishing newspapers - The Birobidzhan Star in Russian and Birobidzhaner Stern in Yiddish., along with The Forpost (a literary, artistic and socio-political journal) and Biro🖤bidzhan Radio was broadcasting. The State Jewish Theatre named after L. M. Kaganovich was opened, along with a museum and bus services. Birobidzhan became a major regional administrative, economic and cultural centre.

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