Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
(Ukraine)
Name Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Use Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign Ukrainian SSR
Proportion 1:2
Adopted 5 July 1950
Flag of the Ukrainian SSR (from 24 August 1991 to 26 December 1991)
Use National flag and state ensign
Proportion 2:3
Adopted 24 August 1991 (de facto)
Design A horizontal bicolour of blue and yellow

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 (Ukraine and Byelorussia) 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). Ukraine 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]

The use of this flag is now outlawed as of May 2015 amid from the crisis against the pro-Russian rebels that first began in late 2013.

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  1. 1 2 Rimša, Edmundas (2005). Heraldry: Past to Present. Versus aureus. pp. 93–94. ISBN 9955-601-73-6.
  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"

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