Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The penultimate USSR-era flag was adopted by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in 1954 and used until 1991. The flag of the Russian SFSR was a defacement of the flag of the USSR. The constitution stipulated:The state flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (SFSR) presents itself as a red, rectangular sheet with a light-blue stripe at the pole extending all the width [read height] which constitutes one eighth length of the flag.
Flag of the Russian SFSR (right) on a 1954 stamp with the flag of the Ukrainian SSR (left). The stamp celebrates the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia.
Detailed construction sheet for the Russian SFSR flag issued on 22 January 1981.
The State Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or simply the Soviet flag, was a red banner with two communist symbols displayed in the canton: a gold hammer and sickle topped off by a red five-point star bordered in gold. The flag's design and symbolism are derived from several sources, but emerged during the Russian Revolution. It has also come to serve as the standard symbol representing communism as a whole, recognized as such in international circles, even after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
The Soviet flag along with an assortment of Russian and Soviet military flags
Flags of the Soviet Republics flown during a parade in Chișinău, the capital of the Moldavian SSR
One of the last Soviet flags flown on the Kremlin, displayed at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin
