Per fess and in base per pale. First Azure; two abaised engrailed barrulets Or. Second Vert and third Sable; spike Or and jackhammer Argent in pale, tangled by branch of blackthorn Or with three flowers Argent, in base inscription "1775" Or.
The branch of thorn entwines ear and jackhammer symbolizes city name and relationship the mining work with ground. Azure color with fesses represent the river Samara and Ternivka, vert means the fertility of the land and the hope, sable means coal mining.
The author is A.Vykhodtsev.
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C.Bohatov.
Геральдика Дніпропетровщини. Офіційні символи територіальних та муніципальних утворень: [Історичні нариси]. - Д.: Арт-Прес, 2012. -192с. ISBN 978-966-348-279-8
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