| Coat of arms of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic | |
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| Details | |
| Armiger | Government of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
| Adopted | Unknown |
| Escutcheon | Baroque shield with hammer and sickle |
| Other elements | Red star, rising sun, Mount Ararat backdrop, crescent moon |
The coat of arms of the Transcaucasian SFSR was adopted by the government of the Transcaucasian SFSR. It is uncertain when exactly it was adopted.
The coat of arms is based loosely on the coat of arms of the Soviet Union. It incorporates designs from each of the three major groups that combined in the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Armenians, Azeri and Georgians, and unusually features Islamic art and communist elements side by side. The latticework in the star itself bespeaks the former coat of arms of Georgia from 1918-1921 and adopted again from 1991-2004; the crescent represents the Muslim Azeris, on a background depicting the national symbol of the Armenians, Mount Ararat. The rising sun stands for the future, the star as well as the hammer and sickle for the victory of communism and the "world-wide socialist community of states".
In 1936, the republic was dissolved and the three regions became the Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijan SSR respectively.
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