The flag of Penza Oblast, Russia, is a dark golden sheet with a green stripe, with a stripe of grass (green) colour at the hoist side. The golden field is charged with symbolic image of Spas Nerukotvornyy (literally "image of the Saviour not made by hand", i.e. an acheiropoieton). The width/height proportion of the flag is 1:1.6; the width of the green stripe is 1/4 of its height. The flag still has not undergone an examination by the State Heraldic Council of Russia.