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# Medvedivs'ka Community (Cherkasy, Ukraine)

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Flag variant A | Flag variant B images by Valentin Poposki

- Presentation
- Village of Medvedivka
- Village of Mel'nyky

See also:

- Cherkas'kyy Raion
- Cherkas'ka Oblast
- Oblasts (Regions) and Autonomous Republics
- Ukraine

## Presentation

The Medvedivs'ka Community is one of 26 communities in Cherkas'kyy County. It has 9 populated places.
The Community was created in 2018, and enlarged in 2020. It has about 208 km² with about 3700 inhabitants. The administrative seat is the Village of Medvedivka.
The Community hasn't adopted its own symbols, yet, as far as I know (In such cases usually the symbols of the administrative seat are in use, until the distinct symbols are adopted).
Further sources:
https://www.rayrada.ck.ua/8-silski-rady/5593-medvedivska-silska-terytorialna-hromada.html
http://www.heraldry.com.ua/index.php3?lang=U&context=info&id=1137
https://www.heraldicum.ru/ukraine/towns/medvedev.htm
https://www.vexillographia.ru/ukraine/towns/medvedev.htm
http://www.patent.net.ua/symbol/regions/ck/medvedivka/ua.html
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.357912444662177
https://www.facebook.com/groups/338751559911599/permalink/1292441227875956/
https://uk.wikipedia.org/...
https://www.heraldicum.ru/ukraine/towns/melniki.htm
https://www.vexillographia.ru/ukraine/towns/melniki.htm
https://www.facebook.com/groups/338751559911599/permalink/1292441574542588/

Valentin Poposki, 11 December 2024

## Village of Medvedivka

There is confusion about the current symbols of the village. According to Ukrainian Heraldry, the shield has a black letter "M", and the flag has one blue and one yellow stripe.
But the other sources, including the author Andriy Grechilo, are talking about the shield with a blue letter "M", and the flag with both stripes in blue. Here are presented both versions:

Flag variant A | Flag variant B images by Valentin Poposki

Flag variant A: Adopted by the Village Council on 29.1.1998.
A square white cloth depicting a drawn brown bow facing right, with the same arrow, above it is a black letter "M". The flag has a blue and yellow edging on the left and right border.
Valentin Poposki, 11 December 2024

From Ukrainian Heraldry (heraldry.com.ua):
"The gonfalon is a rectangular canvas with a ratio of the sides 1:1. In the white field is a strained brown bow with gules bow-string, turned to the right, with brown arrow over it in an argent field. There is black letter "M" above the bow. In left and right the gonfalon has a blue and yellow edging. The city is known from first half XIX as Danylohrad. In 1792 it was given the Magdeburg Right. In 1918–1925 it belonged to the Holodnoyars'ka Republic."
Dov Gutterman, 20 November 2000
Flag variant B: A square white cloth depicting a drawn brown bow facing right, with the same arrow, above it is a blue letter "M". The flag has blue vertical stripes on the left and right border.
Valentin Poposki, 11 December 2024

### Coats of Arms

CoA variant A | CoA variant B images by Valentin Poposki

CoA variant A: Adopted by the Village Council on 29.1.1998. On a silver field, a drawn brown bow with a red bowstring, facing right, with a brown arrow, above it is a black letter "M". The shield is framed by a decorative cartouche and crowned with a red crown with three turrets.
Blazon: Argent a drawn bow and arrow in pale Brunatre and Gules in chief a capital letter M Sable the whole enframed by a cartouche Or and ensigned by a mural crown Gules. (Christopher Southworth)
CoA variant B: In a silver field, a brown bow with a red string, facing right, with a brown arrow, above it a blue letter "M". The shield is framed by a decorative cartouche and topped with a red crown with three teeth (according Andriy Grechilo).

#### Former Coat of Arms (1792–1998)

The first coat of arms of then the town of Danilovka was granted on 30.3.1792. At the end of the charter, an image and description of the coat of arms is given: "... the ancient coat of arms, long used, is being updated, that is: a bow with an arrow stretched above them, the letter 'M'." In the color drawing in the charter, the field is white, the bow is brown, tied with red ribbons, and the letter "M" is not depicted at all.

Valentin Poposki, 11 December 2024

## Village of Mel'nyky

image by Valentin Poposki

The symbols of Mel'nyky were adopted by the village council on 25.3.2011.
Flag: On a green cloth there is a white oblique paw-shaped cross, on top of which in the center there is a white dove, placed upright with a yellow halo around its head, spread wings and pressed paws. The ratio of the sides of the cloth is 2:3 (width to length), the size of the dove with the halo in height is 1/2 the width of the cloth.

### Coat of Arms

image by Valentin Poposki

The symbols of arms of the village of Melniki was created by the heraldist of the Cherkasy regional heraldic society Tolkushin Oleg Gennadievich and the scientific secretary of the society, local historian Samkov Alexander Nikolaevich, the artists are Afonin Viktor Andreevich and Chikalo Bogdan Petrovich. The symbols were developed with the assistance of the philanthropist Ostrovsky Oleg Anatolyevich. Description of the coat of arms: "In a green field, a silver oblique paw-shaped cross, which is accompanied on the right by a silver flower of a plicated snowdrop, on the left by a silver inflorescence (umbrella-shaped tassel) of a bear's bow, and below is filled with black color, in which three silver drops (one and two) fall according to the shield. Above all, in the upper part of the shield of the coat of arms, a silver dove, turned straight, with a golden halo around its head, outstretched wings and pressed paws. The shield is topped with a golden crown, on the crown of which are five golden ears of corn, the middle ones of which are lower than the outer ones, with a black trunk of a common oak with a green crown growing out of the crown. Shield holders standing on a green earthen foot with golden ledges: on the right – a hieromonk in a black klobuk, a black cassock, over which a golden epitrachelion is worn, holding in in his right hand a silver censer; on the left – a haidamak, in a black cap, gray shirt, dark gray trousers and black boots, belted with a narrow brown belt, into which is tucked a scabbard, from which comes out the handle of a knife, and holding a combat scythe in his left hand. Under the shield is a silver ribbon with the inscription on it in green letters 'MEL'NYKY'".

Valentin Poposki, 11 December 2024