Russia in the Soviet Union (later flags)

Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic

Last modified: 2005-07-23 by antonio martins
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• Presentation
• Description of the flag
• Previous version (1954-1955)
• Reverse of the flag
• Coat of arms

See also:

• Russia in the Soviet Union (early flags)
• Subdivisions of Soviet Russia
  • Bashkiria
  • Buriatia
  • Chuvashia
  • Daghestan
  • Kabard-Balkaria
  • Kalmykia
  • Karelia
  • Komia
  • Mariy-El
  • Mordovia
  • North Ossetia
  • Tataria (or Tartary)
  • Tuva
  • Udmurtia
  • Yakutia
• Subdivisions of the Soviet Union (list, clickable map)
• Soviet Union
• Russia

• Image of an actual flag (dark blue variation!)
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 03 Oct 2002

Presentation

RSFSR — Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic (Rossii~skaa^ Socialistic^eskaa^ Federativnaa^ Sovetskaa^ Respublika | Российская Социалистическая Федеративная Советская Республика). This was the official “long” name both before and after the set up of the Soviet Union.
Antуnio Martins, 15 Jan 2000

Description of the flag

The flag for the RSFSR was revised in 1954 to contain a bar at the hoist of 1/8 the length of the flag. The constitution of the RSFSR dated April 12, 1978 article 181 states (in pertinent part) as follows:

The state flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic presents itself as a red rectangular sheet with a light-blue stripe at the pole extending all the width [read height] which constitutes one eighth length of the flag.

Could the flag of the Commander of Naval Forces of the Soviet Russian Navy (1921-1924) have been the precursor for the design of the later RSFSR flag, red with a vertical blue stripe at the hoist?… I note that the RSFSR was the only SSR flag only with non-horizontal stripes.
Antуnio Martins, 12 Mar 2000

RSFSR had the only SS