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image by Ivan Sache, 15 September 1999
Medium blue field with a wavy white bend.
This flag is listed under number 96 at the chart Flags
of Aspirant Peoples [eba94] as:
"Terek Cossacks - North Caucasus, Russia".
Terek is a river flowing nearly parallel to the Caucasus through
Chechnya,
Ingushetia and
Dagestan to the Caspian Sea.
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 1999
17 November 1991: Terek Cossaks
proposed create Terek
Cossack republic into Russian federation. Old Terek state
flag must be the flag proposed. November 1991 in
Novocherkassk, a declaration of Union of Cossack republics
of South of Russia and creation of transitional government.
This project never obtained recognition.
Jaume Ollé, 19 Sep 1999
Flag in exile ca. 1955 (adopted possibly in the 1920s)
image by Janis Lasmanis, 9 September 2020
Terek Host flag was described in Cossack Historical Calendar, 1955, Cleveland
(OH). It was also written there that only Don, Kuban and Terek Hosts had
specific host flags. Here this Terek Host flag is described as well
http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/modcosak.htm
Janis found no
convincing information that Terek Host had a specific flag during the Russian
Civil war.
Ben Cahoon, 9 September 2020
image by Tomislav
Todorovic, 13 June 2026
When the Terek Cossack Host was refounded in Russia in the 1990s, a
black-green-red horizontal tricolor was presented online as its flag; the
information has remained unverified since then [1]. In early 2026, though, its
use was reported on Reddit [2]: a young man from the city of Kyshtym,
Chelyabinsk Region has used a photo of this flag, with a rifle placed over it,
as his profile picture at a penpal website. No information on why he chose it to
represent himself - whether he is descended from Terek Cossacks or just likes
the flag design - was presented, although he did confirm to the Reddit user that
it is the Terek Cossacks' flag. Regardless of that, the flag must be unofficial
now, since the "registered" Terek Cossacks use different flags, which were
officially adopted in 2010 [1].
Sources:
[1] Vexillographia website -
Cossack flags in the Russian Federation:
https://vexillographia.ru/russia/modcosak.htm
[2] Reddit thread about
the presented flag:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/1ty2v7y/can_you_guys_help_identify_this_flag
Tomislav Todorovic, 13 June 2026