Coat of arms of Novosibirsk Oblast

Coat of arms of Novosibirsk Oblast
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Armiger	Novosibirsk Oblast
Adopted	29 May 2003

Coat of arms of Novosibirsk Oblast (Russian: Герб Новосибирской области, Gerb Novosibirskoy oblasti) is the principal official symbol of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia.^[1]

Coat of arms of Tsardom of Siberia (part of the Russian Imperial Coat of Arms)

According to the law, adopted by the Oblast legislature in 2003, "coat of arms of Novosibirsk Oblast is an armorial escutcheon Argent, a pale Azure, overall two sables rampant combatant Sable, langued Gules, armed, ears inside, noses and necks Argent, with paws supporting round bread loaf and saltcellar Or, in base a barulet Sable, whilst on the pale turning Argent".^[2] The armorial composition bears explicit reference to the coat of arms of Tsardom (Governorate) of Siberia which used to be a part of the Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire. The Imperial design was probably derived from the earlier symbol of the Tatars of Siberia and featured two sables supporting a crown, a bow and two arrows. Now the sables support korovai and salt-cellar, which is traditional Russian symbol of hospitality. The blue pale at the modern shield is meant to symbolize the great Ob River and the black barulet is meant to symbolize the Trans-Siberian Railway, which runs through the whole territory of Novosibirsk Oblast in an east-west direction.

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Coats of arms of the oblasts of Russia
Amur Oblast  Arkhangelsk Oblast  Astrakhan Oblast  Belgorod Oblast  Bryansk Oblast  Chelyabinsk Oblast  Irkutsk Oblast  Ivanovo Oblast  Kaliningrad Oblast  Kaluga Oblast  Kemerovo Oblast  Kirov Oblast  Kostroma Oblast  Kurgan Oblast  Kursk Oblast  Leningrad Oblast  Lipetsk Oblast  Magadan Oblast  Moscow Oblast  Murmansk Oblast  Nizhny Novgorod Oblast  Novgorod Oblast  Novosibirsk Oblast  Omsk Oblast  Orenburg Oblast  Oryol Oblast  Penza Oblast  Pskov Oblast  Rostov Oblast  Ryazan Oblast  Sakhalin Oblast  Samara Oblast  Saratov Oblast  Smolensk Oblast  Sverdlovsk Oblast  Tambov Oblast  Tomsk Oblast  Tver Oblast  Tula Oblast  Tyumen Oblast  Ulyanovsk Oblast  Vladimir Oblast  Volgograd Oblast  Vologda Oblast  Voronezh Oblast  Yaroslavl Oblast