Flags of The Soviet Republics

Flags Of The Soviet Republics

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, (the only exception being the Georgian SSR, which uses a red hammer and sickle), and a gold-bordered red star on a red field. Their final versions prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 looked like this:


Flag of the Russian SFSR
Flag of the Ukrainian SSR
Flag of the Byelorussian SSR

Flag of the Uzbek SSR
Flag of the Kazakh SSR
Flag of the Georgian SSR

Flag of the Azerbaijan SSR
Flag of the Lithuanian SSR
Flag of the Moldavian SSR

Flag of the Latvian SSR
Flag of the Kirghiz SSR
Flag of the Tajik SSR

Flag of the Armenian SSR
Flag of the Turkmen SSR
Flag of the Estonian SSR

The official flags of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics (ASSR) were seldom used, and were simply 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.

Today, the only former Soviet Union territories that use modified versions of their original Soviet flag are the unrecognized republic of Transnistria (former region of the Moldavian SSR) and Belarus (since 1995).

Read more about Flags Of The Soviet Republics:  Flags of Dissolved Republics, Flags of Other Republics

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