Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
(Redirected from Flag of Ukrainian SSR)
Jump to: navigation, search
Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Flag of Ukrainian SSR.svg
Name Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Use Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign Ukrainian SSR
Proportion 1:2
Adopted 1950

The first flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on March 10, 1919 to serve as the symbol of state of the Ukrainian SSR. Details of the official flag changed periodically before the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, but all had as their basis the red flag of the October Revolution.

Before this 1919 flag, a flag in 1918 was used with red and blue, with yellow stripes in the canton.

The first flag was red with the gold Cyrillic sans-serif letters У.С.С.Р. (USSR, acronym for Ukrayinskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika (Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic) in the Russian language). In the 1930s a gold border was added. In 1937, a new flag was adopted, with a small gold hammer and sickle added above the gold Cyrillic serif letters У.Р.С.Р. (URSR, for Ukrayins’ka Radyans’ka Sotsialistychna Respublika in the Ukrainian language).

The Soviet Union and two of its republics (the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR) all became members of the nascent United Nations (UN) in 1945. Since all of their flags were red with only small markings in upper left corner, the UN demanded changes to the flags in 1949.[1] To comply, the Ukrainian Soviet authorities dropped the lettering and added a blue horizontal stripe (⅓ of the width). The Ukrainian SSR adopted this new design as its official flag on July 5, 1950.[2] Other constituent republics of the Soviet Union soon followed suit and customized the bottom third of their flags.[1]

  • Flag of the Ukrainian SSR (1919–1929)

  • Flag of the Ukrainian SSR (1929–1937)

  • Flag of the Ukrainian SSR (1937–1949)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ ЗАКОН УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ РАДЯНСЬКОЇ СОЦІАЛІСТИЧНОЇ РЕСПУБЛІКИ від 5 липня 1950 року Про затвердження Указів Президії Верховної Ради Української РСР "Про Державний герб Української РСР" та "Про Державний прапор Української РСР"

External links


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

Stub icon

This European flag–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

Stub icon

This article relating to Ukraine is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

Stub icon

This Soviet Union–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic&oldid=1183964"