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 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 the Moldavian SSR) and Belarus (since 1995).

Flags of dissolved republics

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

Flag of the Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936)

Flags of other republics

Flag of the Abkhazian SSR (1921-1931)

See also

• Coats of arms of the Soviet Republics

External links

• FotW chart of all the flags of the SSRs through history