Image: Coat of arms of Dushanbe

Description: Description of the coat of arms of Dushanbe: «The composition of the coat of arms is based on arches symbolizing the gates to the city and the country. In the center of the arches are placed mountains and a crown with a semicircle of 7 stars in the rays of the rising sun. These elements of the state emblem and flag emphasize the importance of the city as the capital of the Republic of Tajikistan.On the right and left arches are bordered by stylized wings, and from below are decorated with elements of ancient Tajik decorative ornamentation. In the upper part of the coat of arms above the arch the inscription «Dushanbe». In the foreground of the coat of arms is placed a symbolic key to the city, on the background of an open book - a symbol of wisdom, science and education. The whole symbolic composition is placed in a square with a pointed lower edge on the background of three colors - red, white and green - symbolic image of the national flag of Tajikistan».
Title: Coat of arms of Dushanbe
Credit: dushanbe.tj
Author: С. Kurbanov, A. N. Zanevsky
Permission: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This work is not an object of copyright according to the Law of the Republic of Tajikistan No. 726 of November 13, 1998 on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights. Article 5. Object of Copyright. General Provisions Copyright shall not apply to ideas, methods, processes, systems, means, concepts, principles, discoveries, and facts. Article 7. Works that are not Objects of Copyright Shall not be objects of copyright: formal documents (laws, court decisions, other texts of legislative, administrative or judicial nature), and also their official translations; state symbols and signs (flags, coats of arms, insignia, banknotes and so on); communications concerning events and facts that have informational character; works of folk arts. Full text of the Law: in Russian, in English. Comment: according to interstate and international compacts Tajikistan is the legal successor of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, therefore this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Tajik SSR. Warning: this license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of the formal documents, which can be copyrighted. English ∙ русский ∙ +/−
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