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image by Victor Lomantsov
Flag of Atomprofspilka – Trade union of nuclear industry of
Ukraine. Image made according to photo at www.desnay.ru,
reported by M. Revnivtsev.
Victor Lomantsov, 8 December 2006
image by Victor Lomantsov
At old.vkp.ru
there are many photos and images of the flag of Federation of
Trade Unions of Ukraine (FPU). Flag image at the top of the page
has the emblem at the hoist, however, at many photos of real
flags the emblem is centered.
Victor Lomantsov, 19 December 2009
The flag can also be seen here and
here.
Zachary Harden
image by Tomislav Todorovic
The Trade Union of Coal Industry Workers of Ukraine (Ukrainian:
Profspilka pratsivnykiv vuhil'noyi promyslovosti Ukrayiny,
Ukrvuhleprofspilka, PPVPU; Russian: Profsoyuz rabotnikov
ugol'noy promyshlennosti Ukrainy/, Ukrugleprofsoyuz,
PRUPU) was founded in 1991 [1, 2, 3]. Its flag is horizontally divided,
green above black, with a red triangle based at the hoist, which is charged with
two crossed hammers within a ring, all in gold [1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. Black color
stands for coal, green for life, red for the struggle for workers' rights and
interests, and crossed hammers are the international symbol of miners [1, 4].
A vertical variant has also existed, although it is not clear whether it is
still used, since its photos date from 2011 [9]. There were also variants with
the hammers and ring in white/silver, sometimes with additional inscriptions in
same color on green field, as well as those with the hammers, ring and
inscriptions in gold, as well as those with the hammers and ring in silver on a
black disk with the laurel wreath in silver placed over the disk edge
(simplified union emblem), also with the inscriptions in silver on green field;
these seem to have been used mainly be the local branches [10, 11, 12, 13, 14].
Sources:
[1] Trade Union website – About the Trade Union (in Russian):
http://www.prupu.org/about/
[2] Trade Union website – Constitution (in Ukrainian; saved at the Internet Archive
on 2008-08-02):
http://www.prupu.org/about/ustav/
[3] Trade Union website – Constitution
(in Russian; saved at the Internet Archive on 2014-02-22):
http://www.prupu.org/about/ustav/
[4] Trade Union website – Trade Union
symbols (in Russian):
http://www.prupu.org/about/simvolika/
[5] Trade Union website – Photo
from Sverdlovs'k, on 2011-04-27:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/45/2/
[6] Trade Union website – Photo
gallery from Alushta, September 2012:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/58/
[7] Trade Union website – Photo gallery
from Svyatohirs'k, on 2013-04-26/27:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/62/
[8] Trade Union website – Photo gallery,
2018-10-17:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/88/
[9] Trade Union website – Photo gallery
from Makiyivka, on 2011-10-09:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/50/
[10] Trade Union website – Photo
gallery, 2008-12-17:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/6/
[11] Trade Union website – Photo gallery
from Kyiv, on 2008-12-23:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/7/
[12] Trade Union website – Photo gallery,
2009-09-11/12:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/11/
[13] Trade Union website – Photo
gallery, 2009-10-17:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/15/
[14] Trade Union website – Photo gallery
from Donetsk, 2011-02-04:
http://www.prupu.org/photos/41/
Tomislav Todorovic, 24 October 2018
image by Tomislav Todorovic
Social-National Trade Unions of Ukraine (Sotsial-Natsional'ni
Profspilky Ukrajiny, SNPU) were founded in 2010 by the Patriot of Ukraine as the
far-rightist counterpart of ordinary labor unions, which are typically positioned much farther to the left
– an example of the trend which has also emerged in other European
countries in the 21st century. Intended to operate as a constituent
part of the Social-National Assembly, they have only gained a very
limited support and seem to have ceased to operate in 2011, when their
symbols were last seen in use. [1, 2]
The union used a square black flag, charged with their emblem in gold.
The emblem consisted of the monogram NT, standing for the motto
"Natsional'nyj Trud", meaning "National Labor", surrounded with an
incomplete cogwheel on the left-hand side and a wheat-ear on the
right-hand side [2]. The monogram was originally used by the Ukrainian National Labor Party
from 2007 until its dissolution in 2009, and it might have been its former members, a number of whom
had joined the Patriot of Ukraine, who actually created the union's
emblem [2]. The cogwheel and the wheat-ear could have been either
conjoined or separated when appearing as the web graphics or on the
posters; all charges were also voided there, too [2, 3], while on the
flags, they were all gold [3]. The only photos of the flag were taken
in Kyiv on 2010-11-16 [3]. The close-ups show the cogwheel and
wheat-ear as separated, although there may have also been some flags
on which they were conjoined, however their photos were taken from a
distance too large to definitely confirm that [3]. The flags were last
reported to have been used in 2011 [2]; unfortunately the report was
not accompanied with any photos.
Sources:
[1] Social-National Assembly at Wikipedia (in Ukrainian) – Structure: https://uk.wikipedia.org...
[2] Censor.NET website – Mykola Kravchenko's blog, entry on 2021-01-05: https://censor.net/ua/blogs/3240469/monograma_natsonalniyi_trud
[3] Social-National Assembly website at the Internet Archive – Report
on 2010-11-16 (saved on 2011-04-24): https://web.archive.org/web/20110424001330/sna.in.ua/archives/5717
(Image 1: https://web.archive.org...)
(Image 2: https://web.archive.org...)
(Image 3: https://web.archive.org...)
(Image 4: https://web.archive.org...)
(Image 5: https://web.archive.org...)
(Image 6: https://web.archive.org...)
Tomislav Todorovic, 11 February 2025
See also: Social-National Party of Ukraine
