Flags of the Soviet Republics

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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 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 Socialist Soviet 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 Moldavian SSR) and Belarus (since 1995).

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[edit] Flags of dissolved republics


Flag of the
Karelo-Finnish SSR
(1940-1956)

Flag of the
Transcaucasian SFSR
(1922-1936)

[edit] Flags of other republics


Flag of the
Abkhazian SSR
(1921-1931)[1]
  1. ^ Despite its name Abkhazian SSR was never a Union Republic of Soviet Union but had a special contractual republic of Georgian SSR status (see Abkhazian Soviet Socialist Republic#Status) more similar to the Autonomous republics of the Soviet Union.

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