The flag of the Karelo-Finnish SSR was adopted by the

Karelo-Finnish SSR The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Karelo-Finnish SSR; fi, ; rus, Каре́ло-Фи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, r=Karelo-Finskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...

on 3 March 1953. This flag is similar to the

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 ...

but with the blue (1/6 width), and green (1/5 width) placed on the bottom. At the top of the flag at the flagpole placed golden

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 ...

and the

red star A red star, five-pointed and filled, is a symbol that has often historically been associated with communist ideology, particularly in combination with the hammer and sickle, but is also used as a purely socialist symbol in the 21st century. I ...

with a gold border. The green color symbolizes the forest resources, and blue represents the abundance of rivers and lakes.Карелия
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History

Prior to this, the flag was red with a gold

in the top-left corner, and the

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

characters ''Karjalais-Suomalainen SNT'' (Karjalais-Suomalainen Sosialistinen Neuvostotasavalta) with ''Карело-Финская ССР'' (Карело-Финская Советская Социалистическая Республика) below them in gold in a sans-serif font. A 1947 proposal featured exactly the same design as the flag adopted in 1953 except with the abbreviations ''K.-S.S.N.T.'' and ''К.-Ф.С.С.Р.'' in gold in a sans-serif font below the gold hammer and sickle. The proposal also featured a line of black stylized trees on the blue line which would have made it stand out among SSR flags. When the Karelo-Finnish SSR was demoted to ASSR status on 16 July 1956, the flag of the Russian SFSR was used but it has the words ''Карельская АССР'' ("Karel'skaya ASSR") and ''Karjalan ASNT'' were written below the hammer and sickle.

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* Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic Republic of Karelia 1953 establishments in Russia {{Russia-flag-stub

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