Flags of the Soviet Republics

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Русский: На всех флагах республик СССР присутствуют серп и молот на красном фоне.
Беларуская (тарашкевіца): На ўсіх сьцягах рэспублік СССР прысутнічаюць серп і молат на чырвоным фоне.
ქართული: საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკების დროშები — საბჭოთა კავშირის მთავარი დროშის საფუძველზე შექმნილი დროშები 15 მოკავშირე რესპუბლიკისთვის.
Latviešu: Vairums Padomju Sociālistisko Republiku karogu sākumā bija sarkani karogi ar sirpi un āmuru, kas simbolizēja komunismu un bija līdzīgi Padomju Savienības karogam.
English: The flags of the Soviet Socialist Republics all featured a predominantly red flag with the hammer and sickle, both of which symbolised communism.
فارسی: پرچم های جماهیر سیوسیالیستی شوروی اصولاً متشکل از یک پرچم قرمز بزرگ همراه با داس و چکش هستند که هر دو مورد نمادی از کمونیسم است.
Français : Les drapeaux des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques ont tous dépeint un drapeau à prédominance rouge, avec le marteau et la faucille, symboles du communisme.
Deutsch: Die Flaggen der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken haben alle eine vorherrschende Rote Fahne ausgelegt, mit den Hammer und Sichel, welche beide den Kommunismus dargestellt.
Українська: На усіх прапорах республік CРСР присутні серп і молот на червоному фоні.
A hall in the National Museum (formerly Lenin Museum) in Bishkek, decked with the flags of the Soviet Republics. A few vases with portraits of V.I. Lenin on them stand on a small pedestal in the middle of the hall.
30 December 1922 – 12 November 1923
30 December 1922 – 12 November 1923
12 November 1923 – 18 April 1924
12 November 1923 – 18 April 1924
18 April 1924 – 5 December 1936
18 April 1924 – 5 December 1936
5 December 1936 – 19 August 1955
5 December 1936 – 19 August 1955
19 August 1955 – 26 December 1991
19 August 1955 – 26 December 1991

Flags of the Soviet Republics edit

Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1920-1922
 
February–March 1922
 
1936-1940
 
1940-1952
 
1952–1990
 
1990-1991

Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1920
 
1920-1921
 
1921–1922
 
1937-1940
 
1940-1952
 
1952–1956
 
1956–1991
 
1991

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
27 February 1919 – 1 April 1919
 
3 February 1919 – 11 April 1927
 
11 April 1927 – 19 February 1937
 
19 February 1937 – 25 December 1951
 
25 December 1951 – 25 August 1991
 
25 August 1991 – 10 December 1991

Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
31 October 1940 - 6 February 1953
 
6 February 1953 - 8 May 1990
 
Flag of Tallinn protesters 8 May 1990 - 20 August 1991
 
Flag of Tallinn protesters 8 May 1990 - 20 August 1991, variant with modern proportions

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1921–1922
 
1922–1937
 
1937–1951
 
1951–1990
 
1990-1991

Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
20 January 1947 - 3 March 1953
 
3 March 1953 - 16 July 1956

Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1937–1940
 
1940-1953
 
1953–1992

Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1936-1940
 
1936-1940, variant
 
1940-1952
 
1952-1991

Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1918–1920
 
1940–1953
 
1953–1967, variant
 
1953–1990
 
Flag of Riga protesters with the soviet colors
 
Flag of Riga protesters with the colors of 1990

Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1918–1919
 
1940–1953
 
1953–1988
 
1988–1990/1991

Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1941-1952
 
1952–1990
 
1990
 
1990-1991

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic edit

 
14 April 1918
 
17 June 1918 - 21 January 1937
 
10 July 1918, early variant
 
21 January 1937 - 9 January 1954
 
9 January 1954 – 22 August 1991/1 November 1991
 
9 January 1954 – 22 August 1991/1 November 1991, Dark blue variant
 
22 August 1991/1 November 1991 - 25 December 1991
 
22 August 1991/1 November 1991 - 25 December 1991, variant

Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
24 February 1931 – 4 July 1935
 
4 July 1935 - 26 May 1936
 
26 September 1936 – 1938
 
1938 – 28 September 1940
 
28 September 1940 – 1953
 
20 April 1953 – 9 September 1991
 
10 September 1991 – 26 December 1991

Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic edit

 
1922-1925
 
1925-1936

Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
6 October 1926 - 2 March 1937
 
2 March 1937 - 19 July 1940
 
19 July 1940 - 1 August 1953
 
1 August 1953 - 23 September 1974
 
23 September 1974 - 26 December 1991

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
1919-1929
 
1929-1937
 
1937-1950
 
1950–1991
 
1991

Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic edit

 
22 July 1925 - 1927
 
1927 - 9 May 1929
 
9 May 1929 - 28 February 1931
 
28 February 1931 - 1934
 
1934 - 1935
 
1935 - 14 February 1937
 
14 February 1937 - 23 July 1938
 
23 July 1938 - 16 January 1941
 
16 January 1941 - 29 August 1952
 
24 August 1952 - 18 November 1991
 
18 November 1991 - 25 December 1991

Other republics edit

 
Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia
1921-1925
 
Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia
1925-1931
 
Bukharan People's Soviet Republic
1920-1923
 
Khorezm People's Soviet Republic
January 1920-April 30, 1920
 
Khorezm People's Soviet Republic
April 30, 1920-May 1921
 
Khorezm People's Soviet Republic
May 1921-July 1922
 
Khorezm People's Soviet Republic
July 1922-October 23, 1923
 
Khorezm People's Soviet Republic
October 23, 1923 – October 2, 1924
 
Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
1990–1991

Other non-union Soviet republics edit

 
Bavarian Soviet Republic
1919
 
Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic
1919
 
Bremen Soviet Republic
1919
 
Chinese Soviet Republic
1931–1937
 
Far Eastern Republic
1920–1922
 
Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic
1918
 
Commune of the Working People of Estonia
1918–1919
 
Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic
1918
 
Galician Soviet Socialist Republic
1920
 
Hungarian Soviet Republic
1919
 
Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic
1918–1920
 
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
1918-1919
 
Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia
1919-1920
 
Mughan Soviet Republic
1919
 
Odesa Soviet Republic
1918
 
Persian Socialist Soviet Republic
1920-1921
 
Slovak Soviet Republic
1919
 
Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic
1918
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1921–1926
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1921–1926, alternate
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1926–1930
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1930–1935
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1930–1935, alternate
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1935-, 1939/1941
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1939–1941
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1941–1943
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1943–1944
 
Tuvan People's Republic
1943–1944
 
Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
1917–1918
 
Ukrainian Soviet Republic
1918

Flags of the Autonomous Soviet Republics edit

 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
7 January 1935 - 2 August 1937, based on the constitution's Russian version
 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Same flag, based on the Abkhaz version of the constitution
 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
2 August 1937 - 1938
 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
2 August 1937 - 1938
 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938 - 26 April 1951
 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938 - 26 April 1951
 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
26 April 1951 - 3 November 1978
 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
3 November 1978 - 23 July 1992
 
Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1989 - 23 July 1992
 
Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1978–1991
 
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
11 October 1924 - 23 June 1937
 
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
23 June 1937 - 9 February 1938
 
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
9 February 1938 - 31 March 1954
 
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
31 March 1954 - 25 February 1992
 
Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1958-30 May 1978
 
Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
30 May 1978-1990
 
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1937–1944
 
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1957–1978
 
Checheno-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1978–1991
 
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
3 January 1927 - 31 March 1927
 
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
31 March 1927 - 12 February 1931
 
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
12 February 1931 - 19 May 1933
 
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
19 May 1933 - 18 July 1937
 
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
18 July 1937 - 11 June 1940
 
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
11 June 1940 - 6 May 1954
 
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
6 May 1954 - 26 October 1978
 
Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
26 October 1978 - 29 April 1992
 
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1921-1929
 
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1929-1938
 
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938-1941
 
Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1991-1992
 
Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1925-1927
 
Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1927-1954
 
Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1954-1992
 
Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
24 June 1937 - 26 July 1938
 
Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
26 July 1938 - 10 July 1945
 
Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
10 July 1945 - 15 June 1954
 
Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
10 July 1945 - 15 June 1954, variant
 
Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
15 June 1954 - 29 March 1957
 
Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
29 March 1957 - 26 May 1978
 
Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
26 May 1978 - 21 July 1994
 
Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1937-1938
 
Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938-1943
 
Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1958-1992
 
Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1934—1937
 
Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1937—1941
 
Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1941—1952
 
Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1952—1991
 
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1937–1938
 
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938–1940
 
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1956–1978
 
Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1978–1993
 
Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
1920-1936
 
Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
1920–1925
 
Kirghiz Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic
1926–1936
 
Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
26 May 1937 - 1938
 
Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938 - 23 July 1954
 
Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
23 July 1954 - 27 November 1991
 
Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
21 June 1937 - 19 June 1954
 
Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
19 June 1954 - 27 May 1978
 
Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
27 May 1978 - 3 September 1992
 
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1925-1932
 
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938-1938
 
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938–1940
 
Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
27 December 1934 - 30 August 1937
 
Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
30 August 1937 - 1954
 
Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1954 - 7 December 1990
 
Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
7 December 1990 - 30 March 1995
 
Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1921-1926
 
Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1926-1939
 
Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1937-1940
 
Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1940-1945
 
Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1945-1956
 
Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1956-1978
 
Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1978-1990
 
North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1937—1938
 
North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1938—1954
 
North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1954—1981
 
North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1981—1991
 
North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
2 October 1991 - 10 December 1991
 
Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
23 February 1929 – April 1929
 
Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
April 1929 – 24 February 1931
 
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1926-1937
 
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1937-1939
 
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1939-1954
 
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1954-1978
 
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1978-1990
 
Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic
1990-1991
 
Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1919–1921
 
Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1921–1924
 
Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1962–1971
 
Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1971–1978
 
Tuvan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1978–1992
 
Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
14 March 1937 - 29 March 1954
 
Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
29 March 1954 - 31 May 1978
 
Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
31 May 1978 - 4 November 1993
 
Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1926-1937
 
Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
1937-1941
 
Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
13 February 1926 – 9 March 1937
 
Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
9 March 1937 – 23 March 1939
 
Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
23 March 1939 – 12 June 1954
 
Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
12 June 1954 – 27 October 1978
 
Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
27 October 1978 – 27 September 1990
 
Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
27 September 1990 – 14 October 1992