Victory Banner (Russian: Знамя Победы, Znamya Pobedy) can refer to three things:

• The banner that was raised by Red Army soldiers on the Reichstag in Berlin, in 1945. The Cyrillic inscription reads: "150th Rifle, Order of Kutuzov 2nd class, 'Idritskaya' Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Shock Army, 1st Byelorussian Front." This flag is not the first to be hoisted on the Reichstag, but is the first (and the only surviving) of the 'official' flags, explicitly prepared for that purpose, to be raised there.
• The variation of the Soviet flag, without the hammer and sickle, to which president Boris Yeltsin gave a status similar to that of the national flag, on April 5, 1996. President Vladimir Putin also adopted the Victory Banner as the official flag of the Russian Army. This flag was named after the flag raised on the Reichstag, but it is also called Victory Flag.
• Buddhist victory banners symbolize the victory of the Buddha over the delusions of mara - see Dhvaja. These can be found for example on nearly all Tibetan Buddhist monasteries.

"Victory Banner #5" was raised just below a statue on the roof of the Reichstag building.

The banner that Boris Yeltsin approved, in a presidential decree, in 1996, and that is now the flag of the Russian Army

Berlin falls to the Soviet Union - A Red Army soldier flies the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. ... Red Army flag The Workers and Peasants Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA or usually simply the Red Army) were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and that in 1922 became the army of the Soviet Union. ... The Reichstag building. ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Order of Kutuzov 1st class (first variant) The Order of Kutuzov (Russian: Орден Кутузова) is a Soviet military award, named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov. ... (Redirected from 1st Byelorussian Front) The 1st Belorussian Front (alternative spellings are 1st Belarusian Front) was one of the Soviet Army fronts during the World War II. The term front was used by the Red army in World War II to describe a grouping of two or more armies in... Soviet Flag: 1:4 ratio July 1923-November 13, 1923 The first official flag of the Soviet Union was adopted in December of 1922 at the First Congress of Soviets of the USSR. It was agreed that the red banner was transformed from the symbol of the Party to the... Yeltsin redirects here. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the incumbent President of Russia. ... The Russian Ground Forces (Russian: Сухопутные силы России) are the land forces of Russia, formed from parts of the collapsing Soviet Army in 1992. ... Media:Example. ... Mara may mean: // Look up Mara in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Dhvaja (Victory banner) - pole design with silk scarfs, on the background the Potala Palace Dhvaja (Skt. ... Image File history File links Soviet_Znamya_Pobedy. ... Image File history File links Soviet_Znamya_Pobedy. ... Image File history File links Russia_Victory_Commemorative_Flag. ... Image File history File links Russia_Victory_Commemorative_Flag. ... The Russian Ground Forces (Russian: Сухопутные силы России) are the land forces of Russia, formed from parts of the collapsing Soviet Army in 1992. ...

Trivia

• The Victory Banner is very similar to the August 1st Military Banner, which is the banner of the Military of the People's Republic of China, although the similarity is largely coincidental.