August 22, Russia celebrates National Flag Day

The date only became a holiday in 1994 to commemorate the events of 1991 when the three-color flag was first hoisted over the white marble building of the Russian government to replace the Soviet red flag with hammer and sickle

The holiday may be young but the history of the white-blue-red flag dates back four centuries

Russia adopted its first national flag more than three hundred years ago

The “father” of tricolor flag was Peter the First

January, 20 1705 he issued the order, according to it any merchant vessel should have white-blue-red flag