The flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted by the
Georgian SSR on April 11, 1951.
It was the only
Union Republic
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics ( rus, Сою́зные Респу́блики, r=Soyúznye Respúbliki) were National delimitation in the Soviet Union, national-based administrative units of ...
flag in which the
hammer and sickle
The hammer and sickle (Unicode: "☭") zh, s=锤子和镰刀, p=Chuízi hé liándāo or zh, s=镰刀锤子, p=Liándāo chuízi, labels=no is a symbol meant to represent proletarian solidarity, a union between agricultural and industri ...
was not gold in colour.
History
Before 1937 the flag was red with the
Georgian
Georgian may refer to:
Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
characters სსსრ (''SSSR'') in gold in the top-left corner.
Between 1922 and 1937, the flag was red, with the
Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
characters ''ССРГ'' (''SSRG'') in the top left-hand corner.
Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag in the 1940s, the flag was red, with the
Georgian
Georgian may refer to:
Common meanings
* Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country)
** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians
**Georgian scripts, three scrip ...
characters საქართველოს სსრ (''Sakartvelos SSR'') in gold in the top-left corner.
The 1951 flag fell into disuse in November 1990 when the flag based on the
Democratic Republic of Georgia was introduced until the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
.
File:Flag of Georgian SSR (1921-1922).svg, Flag from 1921 to 1922
File:Флаг Грузинской ССР (1940-1952).svg, Flag from 1922 to 1937
File:Flag of Georgian SSR (1937-1951).svg, Flag from 1937 to 1951
File:Flag of Georgian SSR.svg, Flag from 1951 to 1990
File:Flag of Georgia (1990-2004).svg, Flag from 1990 to 1991
File:Batumi Stalin Museum Flag of Georgian Socialist Republic.jpg, A woman holding the flag of Soviet Georgia at the Batumi Stalin Museum.
See also
*
Flag of the Soviet Union
The State Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (), commonly known as the Soviet flag (), was the official state flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 to 1991. The flag's design and symbolism are derived from ...
*
Coat of arms of the Georgian SSR
*
Flag of Georgia
References
External links
Georgia in the Soviet Union(flag)
Flags introduced in 1951
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
National symbols of Georgia (country)
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