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PATENTBUREAU Symbolics Of Prydniprov'ia Pereiaslav-Khmel`nyts`kyi
From history of heraldry of Ukraine
Modern individual symbolism
State differences of Ukraine
Symbolics of Prydniprov'ia regions
Kyiv area
Symbolism of Ukrainian the cossacks

Pereiaslav-Khmel`nyts`kyi

For the first time it was mentioned in 907 as one of the three biggest towns of Rus'. Since the second half of the XII century it was the center of a personal principality.

In 1585 it was given the Magdeburg Right.

In 1620 it was given an emblem. In a deed of Sigizmund III it was described as "a tower with a cross on a lake". Since 1648 it was a regimental town.

On the 8th of January 1654 two hundred and eighty four leutenant - colonels of Cossack troops swore fidelity to a tsar. The event was named

"Pereyaslavs'ka Rada". It was the beginning of Russian annexation of Ukraine.

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The emblem of the Russian period

 

 

The emblem of the Russian period was confirmed on the 4th of June 1782 on a basis of an old emblem - a triple-lodged tower crowned with a church cupola and a crown with battlements

stood in an argent field.

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B.Kene project

 

 

At 01.05.1865 B.Kene worked out a project of a new emblem of the town. In an argent field the gules tower with three circles and or junctions crowned or cupol with or cross. In the canton there was an emblem of Poltavs'ka province. The shield is crown with an argent mauerkrone with three towers and frame with two or ears, which are twine with the ribbon of the Order of St.Alexander.