page_title: Russian State (1918–1920)
section_title: The coat of arms
hierarchical_section_title: Russian State (1918–1920) / State symbols / The coat of arms
caption_attribution_description: English: Emblem of the Kolchak government Français&#160;: Emblème du gouvernement de Koltchak Deutsch: Wappen der Koltschak-Regierungru:Герб Российского государства (проекты 1918—1919)
context_page_description: The Russian State was a state proclaimed by the Act of the Ufa State Conference of September 23, 1918 “on the formation of the all-Russian supreme power” in the name of “restoring state unity and independence of Russia” affected by the revolutionary events of 1917, the establishment of Soviet power and the signing of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany.
context_section_description: In January - April 1919, in Omsk, on the initiative of the Society of Artists and Fine Art Lovers of the Steppe Territory, competitions were held to create a new text of the national anthem and a new state coat. It was announced that, under the terms of the competition, the state coat, “preserving the image of the two-headed eagle, should be compiled in more artistic forms, in the basics of the ancient Russian style, and should correspond to the modern understanding of decorativeness”, and “instead of the removed emblems of the tsarist era (crowns, scepter and powers) the coat of arms should be decorated with emblems characteristic of the new reviving statehood".
  During the competition, 210 versions of the text of the anthem and 97 projects of the State coat were proposed. The most likely contender for victory was considered a project created by an artist from Kazan, Gleb Ilyin, a two-headed eagle, above which stood a cross with the motto “In this, conquer!”. The regional coats of the Russian Empire were removed from the wings of the eagle, but the Moscow arms with Saint George was kept, the crowns were also disappeared, and the scepter was replaced by the sword. Although none of the submitted projects of the coat of arms was finally approved by the jury, the project of Gleb Ilyin was often met on stationery stamps, on the pages of the Siberian press and was used on banknotes.
  On May 9, 1919, the decree of the Council of Ministers of the Russian government approved the symbolism of the Supreme leader is a flag and a pennant with a double-headed eagle, but without signs of “imperial” authority.
caption: A rendition of the state emblem, 1918
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