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{{Short description|Flag holiday in Ukraine}}
{{expand Ukrainian|topic=cult|date=August 2022|День Державного прапора України}}
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|holiday_name  = Day of the National Flag<br />{{nobold|{{lang|uk|День Державного прапора України}}}}
|type          = secular
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|image         = Flag of Ukraine.jpg
|caption       = [[Flag of Ukraine]]
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|observedby    = [[Ukraine]]
|begins        =
|ends          =
|frequency     = annual
|date          = August 23
|firsttime     = 2004<ref name="KaFprapora-ukrayiny"/>
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23 August is celebrated as the '''Day of the National Flag''' ({{langx|uk|День Державного прапора України}}, {{lit|Day of the National Flag of Ukraine}}) in [[Ukraine]]; since in 2004.<ref>[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-08/23/c_131803737.htm Ukraine celebrates National Flag Day] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131007221207/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-08/23/c_131803737.htm |date=2013-10-07 }}, [[Xinhua News Agency]] (23 August 2012)<br>[http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/ceremony-of-hoisting-ukraines-national-flag-held-a-111423.html Ceremony of hoisting Ukraine's national flag held at presidential administration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130214071341/http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/ceremony-of-hoisting-ukraines-national-flag-held-a-111423.html |date=2013-02-14 }}, [[Kyiv Post]] (23 August 2011)</ref><ref name=FlagTCH/>
Since 1992 [[Independence Day of Ukraine]] is celebrated on 24 August.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=C8C3xuqd6aMC&dq=Independence+Day+of+Ukraine&pg=PA185 How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211085759/http://books.google.com/books?id=C8C3xuqd6aMC&pg=PA185&dq=Independence+Day+of+Ukraine&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=PioVUYaHAeiI0AX424CgBQ&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Independence%20Day%20of%20Ukraine&f=false|date=2013-12-11}} by [[Anders Åslund]], [[Peterson Institute for International Economics]], 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-88132-427-3}} (page 185)<br />[https://books.google.com/books?id=AsQzDd41doAC&dq=Independence+Day+Ukraine+Declaration+of+Independence&pg=PA268 Ukraine Intelligence & Security Activities and Operations Handbook] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519070501/https://books.google.com/books?id=AsQzDd41doAC&pg=PA268&dq=Independence+Day+Ukraine+Declaration+of+Independence&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=giwVUaWNCeTE0QWOv4DQDw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=Independence%20Day%20Ukraine%20Declaration%20of%20Independence&f=false|date=2016-05-19}}, [[International Business Publications]], 2009, {{ISBN|0739716611}} (page 268)</ref>
==History==
The yellow-and-blue flag is first verifiably documented in Ukraine on 25 June 1848 when two blue and yellow banners were hung on the [[Lviv]] (then named Lemberg and situated in the [[Austrian Empire]]) [[Lviv Town Hall|Townhall (Rathaus)]].<ref name="prapora32474039RFE">{{cite news|date=25 June 2023|title=175 років тому у Львові на ратуші замайорів синьо-жовтий прапор – як національний символ українців|trans-title=175 years ago in Lviv on the town hall of the Zamayors a blue-yellow flag – as a national symbol of Ukrainians|work=[[Radio Free Europe]]|url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/prapor-symvolika-ratusha-nacija/32474039.html|access-date=23 August 2024|language=Ukrainian}}</ref><ref name="prapora-istoriya-303312">{{cite news|date=23 August 2024|title=Синьо-жовті кольори незалежності. Як на світ з'явився український прапор і які труднощі здолав|trans-title=Blue and yellow colors of independence. How the Ukrainian flag was born and what difficulties it overcame
|work=[[Ukrainska Pravda – Zhyttia]]|url=https://life.pravda.com.ua/society/den-prapora-cikavi-fakti-pro-ukrajinskiy-styag-ta-yogo-istoriya-303312/|access-date=23 August 2024|language=Ukrainian}}</ref> It is unknown who hang the banners and the Austrian authorities dissociated themselves from this action, as did the [[Supreme Ruthenian Council]] (Ukrainian political organization).<ref name="prapora32474039RFE"/> The banners hung for almost a week.<ref name="prapora32474039RFE"/> At the request of the Supreme Ruthenian Council, on 15 May 1849 a yellow-and-blue flag hang again on the Rathaus, this time for one day.<ref name="prapora32474039RFE"/>
The first ceremonial raising of the [[flag of Ukraine|yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag]] in modern times took place on 24 July 1990 at the flagstaff of the [[Kyiv City Council]], one-and-a-half years before the flag was officially adopted as the [[National flag]] of Ukraine.<ref name=FlagTCH/> At the time Ukraine (as the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]]) was part of the [[Soviet Union]] since 1922.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BNUtdVrw6lIC&dq=16+July+1991+Ukrainian+state+sovereignty.&pg=PA722 A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407100810/https://books.google.com/books?id=BNUtdVrw6lIC&dq=16+July+1991+Ukrainian+state+sovereignty.&pg=PA722 |date=7 April 2023 }} by [[Paul Robert Magocsi]], [[University of Toronto Press]], 2010, {{ISBN|1442610212}} (page 563/564 & 722/723)</ref> 24 July was thus previously marked as National Flag Day in [[Kyiv]].<ref name=FlagTCH>{{in lang|uk}} [http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/ukrayina-vidznachaye-den-derzhavnogo-prapora.html Україна відзначає День Державного прапора ''On Tuesday, August 23, all of Ukraine celebrates National Flag Day.  Measures to raise the national flag are planned throughout the country.''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801033729/http://tsn.ua/ukrayina/ukrayina-vidznachaye-den-derzhavnogo-prapora.html |date=2013-08-01 }}, [[1+1 (channel)|1+1]] (23 August 2011)</ref>
On 23 August 1991, after the failure of the August [[1991 Soviet coup attempt]], a group of people's deputies brought a blue-yellow Ukrainian flag into the session hall of the [[Verkhovna Rada]] (then the parliament of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, now the national parliament of Ukraine).<ref name="prapora-istoriya-303312"/> The consecration of the flag was conducted by priest {{ill|Petro Boyko|uk|Бойко Петро Тодосьович}} of the [[Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church]].<ref name="KaFprapora-ukrayiny">{{cite news|date=23 August 2024|title=Символ свободи і незламності: історія Дня прапора України та значення його кольорів|trans-title=Symbol of freedom and steadfastness: the history of the Day of the Flag of Ukraine and the significance of its colors|work=[[Fakty ta Komentari]]|url=https://life.fakty.com.ua/ua/sviata/istoriya-dnya-prapora-ukrayiny-ta-znachennya-koloriv/|access-date=23 August 2024|language=Ukrainian}}</ref> This flag, like a relic, is now solemnly kept under glass in the Verkhovna Rada museum.<ref name="tsikavi-fakti-869884">{{cite news|date=23 August 2022|trans-title=День прапора України: історія свята та цікаві факти|title=Ukrainian flag day: holiday history and interesting facts|work={{ill|Glavcom.ua|uk|glavcom.ua}}|url=https://glavcom.ua/country/society/den-prapora-ukrajini-istorija-svjata-ta-tsikavi-fakti-869884.html|access-date=23 August 2024|language=Ukrainian}}</ref> The next day, [[Declaration of Independence of Ukraine|Ukraine declared independence]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BNUtdVrw6lIC&dq=16+July+1991+Ukrainian+state+sovereignty.&pg=PA722 A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples] by [[Paul Robert Magocsi]], [[University of Toronto Press]], 2010, {{ISBN|1442610212}} (page 722/723)</ref> On 4 September 1991 the flag was raised above the [[Verkhovna Rada building]].<ref name="prapora-istoriya-303312"/>
The current official [[flag of Ukraine]] was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on 28 January 1992.<ref name="KaFprapora-ukrayiny"/>
The official "Day of the National Flag" was created 23 August 2004 through a decree of [[President of Ukraine]] [[Leonid Kuchma]], "On the Day of the [[State Banner of Ukraine]]" No. 987/2004.<ref name="KaFprapora-ukrayiny"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-07-09 |title=УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 987/2004 - Офiцiйне представництво Президента України |url=http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/1918.html |access-date=2023-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709063438/http://www.president.gov.ua/documents/1918.html |archive-date=2014-07-09 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Про День Державного Прапора України |url=https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/go/987/2004 |access-date=2023-07-03 |website=Офіційний вебпортал парламенту України |language=uk}}</ref> A corresponding picture was painted on the wall of the Verkhovna Rada.{{cn|date=August 2024}} In 2009 President [[Viktor Yushchenko]] amended President Kuchma's 2004 decree, founding the current annual flag-raising ceremonies throughout Ukraine on August 23.<ref name="KaFprapora-ukrayiny"/>
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