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Stepan Malkhasyants Stepanos Sargsi Malkhasiants ( hy, Ստեփան Սարգսի Մալխասյանց; – July 21, 1947) was an Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer. An expert in classical Armenian literature, Malkhasiants wrote the ...

The flag of the Armenian SSR was adopted on 17 December 1952 by the government of the Armenian SSR. The flag is similar to the

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but has a ¼-width horizontal blue stripe in the middle. The red represents the "revolutionary struggle of the working masses" and the golden hammer and sickle represents the peasants' and workers' union.

History

The first flag of the Armenian SSR was introduced in the constitution, accepted on 2 February 1922 by the First Congress of Soviets of the Armenian SSR. The 1922 flag was red with the Cyrillic script, Cyrillic characters ССРА (''SSRA'' for :ru:Социалистическая Советская Республика Армения, Социалистическая Советская Респу́блика Арме́ния, ''Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika Armeniya'') in the upper left corner. That flag existed only for a month, because on March 12 the Armenian SSR united with the Georgian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR under the Transcaucasian SFSR (TSFSR), that was split again into these three republics in 1936. Between 1936 and 1940, the flag was red with the gold hammer and sickle in the top left hand corner. The Armenian language, Armenian characters ՀԽՍՀ (''HKSH'' for :hy:Հայկական Խորհրդային Սոցիալիստական Հանրապետություն, Հայկական Խորհրդային Սոցիալիստական Հանրապետություն, ''Haykakan Khorhrdayin Sotsialistakan Hanrapetutiun'') were in gold beneath the hammer and sickle. Between 1940 and 1952, after reforms on Armenian language, the Armenian language, Armenian characters in the top left hand corner beneath the hammer and sickle were changed to ՀՍՍՌ (''HSSR'' for Հայկական Սովետական Սոցիալիստական Ռեսպուբլիկա, ''Haykakan Sovetakan Sotsialistakan Respublika'') staying in gold. The 1952 flag was replaced in 1990 by the tricolor flag of Armenia based on the 1918 flag of the first Republic of Armenia. File:Flag of SSRA.svg, February–March 1922 File:Flag Of The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1936-1940).png, 1936-1940 File:Flag of The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940-1952).png, 1940-1952

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