Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
(Azerbaijian)
Proportion 1:2
Adopted October 7, 1952
Design A plain red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton and an horizontal blue band on the bottom fourth.
Flag of the Azerbaijan SSR (1991)
Names Azərbaycan bayrağı, Üçrəngli bayraq (The tricolour flag)
Use Historical
Proportion 1:2
Adopted February 5, 1991
Design A horizontal tricolor of blue, red, and green, with a white crescent and an eight-pointed star centered on a red band
Designed by Ali bey Huseynzade

The flag of the Azerbaijan SSR was first adopted in 1920, and was a red flag with a yellow crescent and star in the left upper corner.[1]

From the second part of 1921 to 1922, Azerbaijan SSR used a red flag with the yellow Cyrillic characters АССР (ASSR).[1] On March 12, 1920, the Azerbaijan SSR united with the Georgian SSR and the Armenian SSR under the Transcaucasian SFSR (TSFSR), that was split again into these three republics in 1936.

In 1937, golden hammer and sickle were added in the top left hand corner, with beneath the Latin characters AzSSR in a serif font in place of the Cyrillic characters. A third version was issued in 1940s, and had AzSSR substituted by its Cyrillic version АзССР.[1] The last version of the flag was adopted by the Azerbaijan SSR on October 7, 1952. It was the flag of the Soviet Union, with an horizontal blue band on the bottom fourth.[1]

Timeline of the flag of the Azerbaijan SSR

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Флаги СССР и республик (Flags of the USSR and the republics)" (in Russian). Великая Страна СССР (Great Country USSR). Retrieved 2014-08-31.


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