Rectangular panel with sides ratio 2:3 is divided horizontally into seven strips - four red and three white alternately. The ratio of their hight is 1:0.65.
Symbolics of colours the author interpreted in the next kind: white is cleanness of thoughts, honour and denomination; red is bravery, boldness, memory about a blood. The quantity of red bars symbolizes historical periods of development of city: antiquity, middle ages, revival, modernity, and also 4 main peoples, which formed the historical past of city.
The main architect of city has reduced also such interesting argument: in Kerch is a most ancient acting orthodox temple in Ukraine - church of Ioann. On its facade a unique red-white ornament.
Image on site
V.Napytkin.