Azerbaijan in the Soviet Union (original) (raw)

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Azerbaĭdẑanskaâ SSR / Azạrbajĉ⃓an SSR

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Азербайджанская ССР / Азәрбајҹан ССР

image by Željko Heimer, 17 Apr 1996 |

• Description of the flag
• Reverse of the flag
• Previous version (1952-1956)
• Banner of the republic
• Coat of arms See also:
• Azerbaijan in the Soviet Union (early flags)
• Subdivisions of the Soviet Union (chart, list, clickable map)
• Subdivisions of Soviet Azerbaijan
  • Nakhichevan
• Construction details of Soviet flags
• Soviet Union
• Azerbaijan

Description of the flag

Adopted on 7 October 1952; dark blue bar in base, 1/4 width.
Željko Heimer, 17 Apr 1996

Specs.: stripes 3+1; hammer-and-sickle placement and size unknown!
António Martins, 19 Jun 2001

My source for this image was Smith’s 1982 book ([smi82], the Croatian edition of the small Smith book). Looking at it again, indeed the soviet azeri flag has considerably larger hammer and sickle then other republics.
Željko Heimer, 28 Oct 2002

Reverse of the flag

No hammer, sickle and star on the reverse side.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997

The hammer-and-sickle was supresed in the reverse side, 16 March 1981.
Jaume Ollé, 01 Dec 2002

Officially reverse looked like obverse without star and hammer-sickle. But in fact I never saw these flags without star, hammer-sickle. Real flags (all 15) usually were either with reverse analogous to obverse (but with star and hammer-and-sickle near the hoist) or with reverse = mirrored obverse.
Victor Lomantsov, 30 Nov 2002

Previous version (1952-1956)

According Vexilologie 9-10 [vex] there were two patterns for Azerbaijan: pattern of 1952-1956, and pattern after 1956. Chages are in the size, position and design of the hammer-and-sickle and star. Consequently, also the flags of the ASSRs within Azerbaijan were slighty changed in 1956.
Jaume Ollé, 22 Jul 2001

Banner of the republic

image by Antonio Gutiérrez, M. Schmöger, Željko Heimer and António Martins, 13 Oct 2006 |

Many (all?) soviet republics had these banners. Usually it was red field with republican coat-of-arms and the name of republic. They had gold fringe. I know about such banner of Azerbaijan.
Victor Lomantsov, 09 Jan 2002

Coat of arms

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image by M. Schmöger, 31 Aug 2001 (source: [hzg80])

The emblem was introduced 1937 (according to Hesmer [hes92]) and used until 27 February 1993, when the current onewas introduced.
M. Schmöger, 16 Sep 2001

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