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St. Petersburg Province Coat of Arms

Categories / Capital/Heraldry, Symbols of St. Petersburg, State Awards

ST. PETERSBURG PROVINCE COAT OF ARMS, an officially approved heraldic emblem. The coat of arms was ratified on 5 July 1878, according to the following description: "the dark red field of the escutcheon features a golden sceptre on two silver anchors, one for the sea and one for a river, positioned crosswise". The use of the coat of arms was discontinued in 1917. Since the Leningrad region, its population, and its surrounding territory differ from those of the St. Petersburg Province as a whole, the city's coat of arms does not reproduce the Coat of Arms of the St. Petersburg Province, though it uses some of its motifs.

G. V. Kalashnikov.