Emblem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The coat of arms of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on 14 March 1919 by the government of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and subsequently modified on 7 November 1928, 30 January 1937 and 21 November 1949. The coat of arms from 1949 is based on the coat of arms of the Soviet Union and features the hammer and sickle, the red star, a sunrise and stalks of wheat on its outer rims. The rising sun stands for the future of the Soviet Ukrainian nation, the red star as well as the hammer and sickle for communism and the "world-wide socialist community of states".
1937 postage stamp with the new arms
Coat of arms of the Ukrainian SSR (1919)
The Ukrainian SSR's emblem shown on top of Kharkiv's city hall in 2008.
Decommunization in Ukraine
Decommunization in Ukraine started during the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and expanded afterwards. Following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity and beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Ukrainian government approved laws that banned communist symbols, as well as symbols of Nazism as ideologies deemed to be totalitarian. Along with derussification in Ukraine, it is one of the two main components of decolonization in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian SSR emblem seen in top of the city hall in Kharkiv, which was removed after the laws took effect.
Image: Здание Горкома в Николаеве
Image: Mykolaiv town hall June 2017 cropped
Image: Kyiv Motherland monument 250502