Tunik, G.A. Creation of the official symbols of the Chelyabinsk oblast as a factor mirroring the social and political life in the region.

Abstract: The modern official regional symbols became a new phenomenon in the Russian Federation, and they show the social and political identity of the regions. It happened so, that the Chelyabinsk oblast did not have any official regional symbols; they were formed “from nothing”. The rediscovery of the official symbols of the Chelyabinsk oblast proves that the heraldry becomes a new picturesque language of our time…