For first time ever: Pahonya emblem may appear in form of figurines


Designer Danil Bartashuk is raising funds for creating 3D-models and figurines of Pahonya on a crowdfunding platform.

“Until now, Pahonya emblem has been only in the shape of 1D pictures and bas-reliefs. I wanted to have a manydimensional picture of Pahonya as a desktop pattern and a figurine long before. Time moved along, but except for new versions of its graphic image nothing interesting appeared,”- the author says.

Talaka.by started raising funds that will be used for optimizing a 3D model, 3D-printing of a prototype and making figurines, as well as taxes and fees.

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The earliest Pahonya  of which we have knowledge is represented on the seal of Prince Alexander Nevsky (13th century) who was married to the daughter of the Prince of Polatsk. According to some historians, Pahonya was originally the emblem of the Polatsk State.

Pahonya and the white-red-white flag were symbols of the Belarusian National Republic (BNR).

On 19 September 1991, the white-red-white flag and emplem Pahonya (Pursuit) was officially recognized state symbols of the Republic of Belarus. Such resolution was passed by the Supreme Soviet of the 12th convocation after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

But after the 1995 referendum, they were replaced by those reminiscent of Soviet symbolism.

The white-red-white flag has been often associated with the opposition to the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka. It is not officially banned from public usage, but is treated by the authorities as an unregistered symbol which means that demonstration of it by political activists or sports fans can lead to arrests and confiscation of the flags.

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