Last modified: 2025-04-12 by rob raeside
Keywords: stroĭtransgaz |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 March 2025
The official name of this company, as a standalone entity, is АО
"Стройтрансгаз", short form of Акционерное общество "Стройтрансгаз",
while its holding company group is ОАО "Стройтрансгаз", short for
Открытое акционерное общество "Стройтрансгаз". More about this company in
several Wikipedias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroytransgaz or
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki
It is an engineering construction
company in the field of oil and gas industry founded in 1990 within the giant
Gazprom and it’s currently owned by the Luxembourgish entity Volga Group, an
investment vehicle. Its contracts for the Russian military earned this company
its inclusion in the Specially Designated Nationals List of the U.S. Department
of the Treasury (for now, at least).
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28
March 2025
This flag can be seen at
https://youtu.be/rE2qiOQJisU?t=294 (time stamp 04′54″ of a documentary about
the Russian presence in Assad’s Syria). It is a plain dark blue flag with the
company logo centered on it, its name underneath, centered across the bottom.
The logo consists of white extra bold serifless dotless initials "СТГ"
(translit.: "STG") between two slightly ascending quadrangular orange strokes,
above and below; company name (short form) underneath in a very light weight of
the same typeface, capitalized properly: "Стройтрансгаз" (translit.:
"Stroĭtransgaz").
The shade of blue in digital files available at the
official website
https://www.stroytransgaz.ru/static/img/logo.svg (also mirrored in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STG_Logo.svg. Wikimedia Commons) is
darker and more tealish than what the mentioned footage in Syria suggests; the
image abvoe uses the RGB values officially available (blue 002C43 and orange
E94900), pending better research.
As usual for Russian companies, a Latin
script variant of the logo exists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stroytransgaz_logo.png)
usually meant for use, at least, in foreign locations where the Latin script is
locally prevalent - explaining this Cyrillic flag in Syria. While I didn’t find
any Latin variants of this flag, they likely exist. The reverse of this
lettering logo flag, as usual, is very likely an unreadable non-mirrored image,
at least on thin material printed flags meant for outdoors eolic hoisting.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 March 2025
