In the eighteenth century blue flags with golden or yellow images of coats of arms and, in part, other signs, such as heavenly bodies, weapons, figures of saints Michael, Yuri, and others, predominated among the flags. The face of the regimental and hundreds of crowns and banners was the national emblem depicting a Cossack in a golden or yellow shield box on a blue cloth.

During the revolutionary "Spring of Peoples" in 1849, the Main Russian Rada in Lviv restores the use of the coat of arms of the Russian kingdom (Galicia-Volyn state) of the XIII-XIV centuries with the image of a golden lion that leans against a rock in a blue field, and as national flags are widely used sham with a combination of blue and yellow colors. At the beginning of the 20th century. under the influence of heraldic rules (according to the rules of vexilology, the color of the upper strip on the flag should be the color of the main stamp figure) more widespread yellow and blue flag (ie, the upper strip is yellow).

The flag in yellow-and-blue colors returns during the days of the UPR.

Shipphih's color drawings, made at the end of 1917 after the proclamation of the 3rd Universal and published by the publishing house "Vernigoras" as postcards and posters.