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The flag of the Soviet Union consisted of a plain red flag with a gold hammer crossed with a gold sickle placed beneath a gold-bordered red star. This symbol is in the upper left canton of the red flag. The colour red honours the red flag of the Paris Commune of 1871; the red star and the hammer and sickle are symbols of communism and socialism.
USSR republics coat of arms display on USSR State Television.. The emblems of the constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics all featured predominantly the hammer and sickle and the red star that symbolized communism, as well as a rising sun (although in the case of the Latvian SSR, since the Baltic Sea is west of Latvia, it could be interpreted as a setting sun ...
On 22 August 1991 the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR decided: [4] Prior to the establishment of the new state symbol of the Russian Federation, the historical flag of Russia – the flag with equal horizontal white, azure, scarlet stripes should be regarded as the official national flag of the Russian Federation.
The State Emblem of the Soviet Union [a] was the official symbol of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics adopted in 1923 and used until the dissolution of the state in 1991. Although it technically is an emblem rather than a coat of arms , since it does not follow traditional heraldic rules, in Russian it is called герб ( gerb ), the ...
Flag of the TSFSR Flag of the TSFSR (Variant) Flag of the TSFSR from 1922 to 1925. The Flag of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (Russian: Флаг Закавка́зской СФСР, Flag Zakavkázskoj SFSR) was adopted by the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in 1925.
In addition to those repetitive motifs, emblems of many Soviet republics also included features that were characteristic of their local landscapes, economies or cultures. All ASSRs emblems created during the korenizatsiya era usually included national patterns. The exception to this was the Bashkir ASSR, Crimean ASSR, and Moldavian ASSR, which ...
Comment – This license tag is also applicable to official documents, state symbols and signs of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (union level [1]).
Flag of the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; Flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; Flag of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic; Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic; Flag of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic; Flag of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic