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Català: Bandera de la Unió Soviética

Русский: Флаг Советского Союза
Cymraeg: Baner yr Undeb Sofietaidd
Dansk: Sovjetunionens flag
Deutsch: Fahne der Sowjetunion
Ελληνικά: Σημαία της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης (Ε.Σ.Σ.Δ)
English: Flag of the Soviet Union
Esperanto: Flago de Sovetunio
Español: Bandera de la Unión Soviética
Suomi: Neuvostoliiton lippu
Français : Drapeau de l'Union soviétique
Magyar: A Szovjetunió zászlója
Italiano: Bandiera dell'Unione Sovietica
日本語: ソビエト連邦の国旗
한국어: 소비에트 연방의 국기

Malti: Bandiera ta' L- Unjoni Sovjetika

Македонски: Знамето на Советската Унија
Nnapulitano: Bannera 'e ll'Aunione Sovietica
‪Norsk (bokmål)‬: Sovjetunionens flag
Polski: Flaga Związku Radzieckiego
Português: Pt-Estupideira da União Soviética/Br-Bandeira da União Soviética
Svenska: Sovjetunionens flagga
Türkçe: Sovyetler Birliği Bayrağı
Українська: Прапор Радянського Союзу
中文: 苏维埃联邦国旗
Български: Знаме на Съюза на съветските социалистически републики (СССР)

The flag of the Soviet Union, based on http://www.bastisoft.de/flags/historic/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.png

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This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

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Public domain This work is not an object of copyright according to Part IV of Civil Code No. 230-FZ of the Russian Federation of December 18, 2006.

Article 1259. Objects of Copyright

Paragraph 5

Copyright shall not apply to ideas, concepts, principles, methods, processes, systems, means, solutions of technical, organizational and other problems, discoveries, facts, programming languages.

Paragraph 6

Shall not be objects of copyright:
  • official documents of state government agencies and local government agencies of municipal formations, including laws, other legal texts, judicial decisions, other materials of legislative, administrative and judicial character, official documents of international organizations, as well as their official translations;
  • state symbols and signs (flags, emblems, orders, banknotes, and the like), as well as symbols and signs of municipal formations;
  • works of folk art (folklore), which don't have specific authors;
  • news reports on events and facts, which have a purely informational character (daily news reports, television programs, transportation schedules, and the like).

Full text of the Code: in Russian.


Comment – According to interstate and international compacts, the Russian Federation is the legal successor of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Russian SFSR and the USSR (union level[1]).

Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of formal documents, which can be copyrighted.


  1. The union level means that use of official symbols and the formal documents of 14 other Soviet Republics is the subject of law of their legal successor. See respective license tags.

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current22:58, 29 January 2008600×300 (2 KB)MaggotMaster (Some mistakes in previous version, should be 1200x600, reverting)
22:23, 29 January 20081,500×750 (9 KB)MaggotMaster
12:59, 7 January 2008600×300 (2 KB)Pianist (I corrected proportions and colors according to «ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ О ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОМ ФЛАГЕ СОЮЗА СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК»)
17:19, 15 August 2007600×300 (4 KB)R-41 (Fixing colour error again, did not work last time for some reason)
17:16, 15 August 2007600×300 (4 KB)R-41 (colour error fixed)
03:54, 18 July 2007600×300 (4 KB)R-41 (Recoloured the red to the shade used for the RSFSR flag)
05:00, 9 May 2007600×300 (3 KB)Zscout370 (Fixed the flag according to the talk page and according to the Soviet laws I have on me.)
20:49, 28 February 2006600×300 (3 KB)Urmas (hammer and sickle)
05:43, 3 February 2006600×300 (2 KB)Zscout370 (Re-did everything by hand)
00:58, 16 December 2005600×300 (4 KB)Zscout370 (I group stuff together, but for some reason, it cut down on the file size.)
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