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# Terek Cossacks’ flags (Russia)

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Last modified: 2026-07-18 by rob raeside
Keywords: cossacks | terek | wavy bar |
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image by Ivan Sache, 15 September 1999

- About the flag
- Terek Cossack Host
- Triband proposal

See also:

- Cossack flags
- Chechenia
- Ingoutshia
- Daghestan
- Russia

## About the flag

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

## Terek Cossack Host

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

## Triband proposal

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