Some kind of coat of arms

Evgeny Pirogov sent requests to the Heraldic Council under the head of the Republic of Mari El and the Yoshkar-Ola prosecutor's office regarding the origin and affiliation of the coat of arms, located on a public structure, which goes to the Malaya Kokshagi embankment. No matter how the curious city dweller would have to find out the issue of the person of the owner of structures and buildings.

Famous new buildings on the shore of Malaya Kokshagi in Yoshkar-Ola hide many secrets. Every now and then an attentive passerby or a tourist stumbles upon mysterious artifacts. The coat of arms, located above the gates of the fortress wall surrounding the building, is supposedly as the residence of the head of the Republic of Mari El (the tablets indicating this fact, the owner of the building did not provide) - only one of the most noticeable of them.

And somehow the question of the meaning of this coat of arms is not clarified-either this is a decorative detail, or it has a certain semantic value for the persons who gave the order to place it.

It was precisely the considerations of the establishment of truth that the tireless civilian activist Yevgeny Pirogov was guided, who decided to find out the whole truth about the coat of arms on the gates of an imaginary or obvious residence. In this case, one can ask the main in the coat of arms in the republic and the supervisory authority that monitors compliance with the rule of law-so letters were drawn up and sent to the Heraldic Council under the head of Mari El and the Yoshkar-Ola prosecutor's office. The Heraldic Council processed the activist’s message promptly - it is immediately clear that civil activists and ordinary citizens are infrequently disturbed by this structure.

The chairman of the Heraldic Council under the head of Mari El Alexander Kazimov answered the author of the letter as follows: "... the signs and symbols depicted in the attached photograph were not received, were not considered and were not registered." For a semantic interpretation, they advised to turn to the author. The name of the author of the mysterious coat of arms, Mr. Kazimov did not mention.

But this gap is replenished by a newspaper article published in the city weekly Va-Bank. Yoshkar-Ola ”December 23, 2012. The author of the article turned for help to the predecessor of Mr. Kazimov as chairman of the Heraldic Council-Izmail Efimov. Here is what the member of the Guild of Heraldic Artists of Russia told reporters: “This coat of arms was developed by me and my son, candidate of historical sciences Peter Efimov,” said Izmail Barsonofievich. - He has long been registered in the heraldic register of Mari El and belongs to the type of personal civilian emblems.

This is the emblem of the head of the Republic Leonid Markelov, the Markelov family. Its development was carried out taking into account the heraldic norms and the wishes of Leonid Igorevich. ” Is it possible to place a personal coat of arms in a public building, which, in fact, is a “residence” - probably this is one of the following questions that are waiting for their answer in the complete secrets of the modern history of the Malaya Kokshagi embankment ...