Coat of arms of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

“The coat of arms of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is an image of a symbolic key placed on a heraldic shield; the key on the left and right is supported by bears standing on a curving ribbon.

In the color image of the Coat of Arms of the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the heraldic shield is dark blue, framed by a silver or dark blue border; the key, bears and ribbon are made in silver-gray color scheme. ” ^[one]

In the azure shield, a stylized silver key is depicted. The ear of the key reproduces the flower; The beard of the key consists of the stylized letters "U" and "C". The key is supported on the sides by two silver bears standing on a silver ribbon.

A stylized silver key symbolizes the beginning of the history of the city. The letters "U" and "C" mean the name of the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Flower - A drawing in the form of a flower (a fragment of an ornament on ceramics found by archaeologists at the Susuy site). When constructing chronological schemes for the development of the Okhotsk culture, the Susuiskaya parking lot plays the role of a reference monument. The term "Susuy type of ceramics" was introduced into scientific circulation.

The ribbon is the Susuya River , the bulges on the ribbon are hills from the east and west, and the depression is the valley in which the city is located.

Bear - a symbol of Russian strength and power, revered beast of the ancient people of the island.

The coat of arms is written by Vyacheslav Borisovich Ivanov .

The coat of arms is not included in the State Heraldry Register of the Russian Federation .

In Soviet times, in the 80s, a souvenir badge was issued with a coat of arms emblem of the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The emblem had the following appearance: against the background of the blue sea and the rising golden sun in a red field there is a silver heraldic shield in which a golden rising bear holds a fish in its paws; at the base of the emblem, the city was founded in 1882 .

One of the main figures of the emblem - the rising bear became the prototype of the bears of the official coat of arms of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Other souvenir coat of arms emblems of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk of the Soviet period are also known. On one of them: in a blue shield with a blue extremity, against a backdrop of green mountains, above which is a golden flying plane, a four-beam golden star, between which there are small scarlet rays, and a gold tower with a scarlet pipe, accompanied by a silver outline of Sakhalin Island with a scarlet on the right dot below, left - silver contours of the Kuril Islands . The golden head of the shield is encumbered with the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and is accompanied below by a convex scarlet ribbon with the name of the city in gold. In the second version, repeating the drawing of the first, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree is added. ^[2]

The coat of arms of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk was not officially approved.

• Flag of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
• Coats of arms of settlements of the Sakhalin region

• I.V. Borisov, E.N. Kozina. Heraldry of Russia. - M .: Astrel, 2006 .-- S. 291. - 423 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-271-11355-8 .