Английская Википедия:Flags of the Soviet Republics
Шаблон:Short description The flags of the Soviet Socialist Republics were all defaced versions of the flag of the Soviet Union, which featured a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star (the only exception being the Georgian SSR, which used a red hammer and sickle and a fully red star) on a red field.
History
When Byelorussia and Ukraine were the founding members of the United Nations in 1945, all of their flags were red with only small markings in upper left corners and needed distinct flags for each other.
In February 1947, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a resolution calling for the Soviet republics to adopt new flags, which each of its republics were recommended to develop and adopt new national flags. So they expressed the idea of a union state, asked to use the symbols of the State flag of the Soviet Union, such as the gold hammer and sickle and the red star, as well as maintain the predominance of red color on the flag of the Union republics. National, historical and cultural features of each republic was instructed to express the other colors and the order of their location, as well as the location based on the national emblem or coat of arms. After competitions for the best projects from 1949–1954 the new flags of the 16 republics were developed and adopted. The authorities in Ukraine and Byelorussia were the first to adopt the flags on 5 July 1950, and 25 December 1951, respectively. All others followed suit between 1952 and 1953 with the last republic, the Russian SFSR, adopted the flag on 9 January 1954.[1]
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991, only Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan (without hammer and sickle), Turkmenistan and Ukraine retained their Soviet republic flags as independent states until the new official flags were adopted in 1992. Since 1995 (current version adopted in 2012) Belarus retains its old Soviet flag with only minor changes.
Their final versions prior to re-adoption of the non-Soviet national flags were as follows:
| Flag | Date adopted | Description | Present-day flag | |
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| Flag of the Russian SFSR |
Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A red rectangular sheet with a light-blue stripe at the pole extending all the width which constitutes one eighth length of the flag. | Шаблон:Center |
| Flag of the Ukrainian SSR |
Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A horizontal bicolor of red over azure (light blue) with the golden hammer and sickle and gold-bordered star on top of the canton. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A horizontal bicolor of red over green in a 2:1 ratio and the golden hammer and sickle with the bordered star on the canton, with a white ornamental pattern on a red vertical stripe at the hoist. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A triband flag with the colors (from top to bottom) red, blue, and red, with the blue band fimbriated in white, with a golden hammer and sickle in the upper canton. | Шаблон:Center |
| Flag of the Kazakh SSR |
Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A red flag with blue stripe and a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton. | Шаблон:Center |
| Flag of the Georgian SSR |
Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A plain red flag with the red hammer and sickle with a red star in a blue sun in canton, blue bar in upper part of flag. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A plain red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton and a horizontal blue band on the bottom fourth. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A red flag with the golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton with the white thin stripe and green thick band on the bottom. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A plain red flag with the green horizontal stripe and the golden hammer and sickle with a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A plain red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton with the blue and white rippling water at the bottom. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A red field with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton with two navy blue bars and a white stripe in the middle of the flag. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A red field with white and green stripes in the middle of the flag (pan-Iranian colors), with a golden hammer and sickle in the upper canton. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A plain red flag with the blue horizontal stripe and the golden hammer and sickle with a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A plain red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton with two blue bars in the middle of the flag. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A red flag with the golden hammer and sickle and outlined star above a band of blue water waves near the bottom. | Шаблон:Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Dts | A plain red flag with the golden hammer and sickle with a red star with the blue and green stripes on the bottom. | Шаблон:Center |
Flags of other republics
Other Union Republics and autonomous republics existed within the Soviet Union, mostly using flags on a similar pattern, or the flag of their "parent" Union Republic, further defaced. Today, the only former Soviet Union territories that use modified versions of their original Soviet flag are the republic of Transnistria (a state of limited recognition, formerly part of the Moldavian SSR) and Belarus (since 1995).
The official flags of the ASSRs were seldom used, and were generally the flag of the republic to which the ASSR belonged, defaced with the ASSR name in its own language(s) and the official language of the SSR; flags matching this pattern are not displayed in the gallery below:
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Flag of the Bukharan PSR Шаблон:NowrapШаблон:NoteTag
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Flag of the Khorezm PSR Шаблон:NowrapШаблон:NoteTag
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Flag of the Tajik ASSR Шаблон:NowrapШаблон:NoteTag
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Flag of the Turkestan ASSR Шаблон:NowrapШаблон:NoteTag
Notes
References
External links
Шаблон:Soviet Union topics Шаблон:USSR flags Шаблон:Lists of flags
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