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Numerical and Functional Flags: Soviet Navy

Numeric Flags
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Functional Flags
- 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 |

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The source for the images on this page is Navy.RU

Numeric Flags

Signal flag 0

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Nolâ (ноль); Four colors divided per saltire consisting of (clockwise from top) yellow/blue/red/black (which is the ICS "Zulu" flag
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Signal flag 1

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Yedinitsa (единица); White beside blue vertical swallowtail bicolor.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Identical to ICS "Alpha" (latin letter) flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 October 2005

Signal flag 2

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Dvoyka (двойка); Blue triangular pennant with white roundel
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Signal flag 3

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Troyka (тройка) (whence the English word "troika" is derived); Triangular triband pennant divided vertically into red/white/blue.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Signal flag 4

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Chetvyorka (четверка); Red pennant with white Scandinavian cross.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Signal flag 5

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Pyatyorka (пятерка); Triangular bicolor pennant divided vertically into yellow beside blue.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Signal flag 6

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Shiestyorka (шестерка); Red over yellow divided per bend dexter (from top-left to bottom-right)
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Signal flag 7

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 21 October 2005

Codename: Siemyorka (семерка); Red/white/blue vertical triband square flag (The ISCF "Tango" flag, a reversed French Tricolore
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Signal flag 8

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Vos`myorka (восьмерка); White/red counterchanged quarters per cross (White/Red on top, Red/White on bottom)
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Signal flag 9

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Codename: Dievyatka (девятка). White with blue cross
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 19 October 2005

Functional flags

Functional Signal 01

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

Codename: Gaz (Газ); Black with a white-fimbriated red fly triangle.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

Gaz - the warning of use of poison gases being used by the enemy.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 26 October 2005

Functional Signal 02

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

Codename: Dym (Дым); White over black over white horizontal triband pennant.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

A signal for the initiation of camouflage smokes, smoke screen.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 26 October 2005

Functional Signal 03

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

Codename: Tyelyegrafnyii (Телеграфный); Yellow/blue/yellow/blue/yellow/blue vertical bars (same as the ICS "Golf" flag).
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

Telegraph - to send messages only by telegraph
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 26 October 2005

Are you sure this doesn't mean that the message is coming in spelled out form using the letter flags, rather than as a pre-set code from the signal book? That's the meaning of the "telegraph" flag in non-Russian signaling systems. For example, if preceded by a "telegraph" signal, the ICS flags IT spell the simple English word "it." If not, the IT combination would mean "I am on fire."
Joe McMillan, 26 October 2005

Functional Signal 04

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

Codename: Shlyupochnyii (Шлюпочный); Blue field with white center square panel (ICS's Papa" flag)
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

Boats on water! To lower to float boats!
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 26 October 2005

Functional Signal 05

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 22 October 2005

Codename: Vozdushnyii (Воздушный): White field with blue center square panel (makes it the "White Sierra", the ICS "Sierra" flag--the reverse of its "Papa" flag).

Air - warning of an air attack.
Mikhail Revnivtsev, 26 October 2005

Note: These next four flags are signal flags apparently referring to compass directions. Naval use has special words for these, not the usual Russian language names. The numbering seems to be only the order by which these flags show in the source.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 24 October 2005

Functional Signal 06

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 October 2005

Codename: Nord (Норд); White field with a red chief triangle (upside-down--base at top, points down to bottom).
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 24 October 2005

Meaning "north"; regular Russian word "север" ("sever"). The triangle touches the bottom edge of the flag; I guess we could say "a triangle throughout".
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 October 2005

Functional Signal 07

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 October 2005

Codename: Zyuyd (Зюйд); White field with a black base triangle (upright--points upwards).
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 24 October 2005

Meaning "south"; regular Russian word "юг" ("ûg"). Russian naval jargon: "зюйд" ("zûĭd"). The triangle touches the top edge of the flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 October 2005

Functional Signal 08

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 October 2005

Codename: Ost (Ост); White field with a giant black diamond lozenge spread throughout.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 24 October 2005

Meaning "east"; regular Russian word "восток" ("vostok"). Russian naval jargon: "ост" ("ost")?
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 October 2005

Functional Signal 09

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 October 2005

Codename: Vyest (Вест); Red/white quarters divided per saltire (red at top and bottom, white on left and right sides).
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 24 October 2005

Russian naval jargon: "Вест" ("vest").
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 October 2005

Functional Signal 10

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 October 2005

Codename: Voprositelhnyĭ (Вопросительный) Yellow/blue/yellow horizontal triband.
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 30 October 2005

Means "interrogation" or "question", as in "question mark", "вопросительный знак" ("voprositelhnyĭ znak").
António Martins-Tuválkin, 25 October 2005

Functional Signal 11

image by Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 30 October 2005

Codename: Otvyetnyii (Ответный); Red truncated burgee field with white roundel
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 30 October 2005

Functional Signal 12

image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 October 2005

Codename: Ispolnityelâ'nyii (Исполнительный) White beside red vertical bicolor flag (ICS "Hotel" signal).
Robert Lloyd Wheelock, 30 October 2005