Tajikistan in the Soviet Union (original) (raw)

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Tadẑikskaâ SSR / RSS Toĉ̩ikiston

Таджикская ССР / РСС Тоҷикистон

image by Željko Heimer, 17 Apr 1996 | two-sided

Description of the flag
Reverse of the flag
Coat of arms See also:
Tajikistan in the Soviet Union (early flags)
Subdivisions of the Soviet Union (chart, list, clickable map)
Construction details of Soviet flags
Soviet Union
Tajikistan External links:
Image of an actual flag
reported by Dov Gutterman, 03 Oct 2002

Description of the flag

Adopted on 20 March 1953. White and green stripe near the bottom, with the following measures: 1/2 red, 1/5 white, 1/10 green, 1/5 red. See here detailed construction information of the hammer and sickle.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997

Specs.: stripes 5+2+1+2. In my opinion, this was the best looking of them all.
António Martins, 19 Jun 2001

The flag of the Tadzhik SSR was, unsurprisingly, red, with two horizontal stripes of white over green. The white symbolized cotton production, the basis of Tajikistani agriculture, and the green was for other agricultural produce. The current Tajikistan flag continues this tradition, being a red over white over green tricolour.
Stuart Notholt, 25 Nov 1995

The colours are the same as the Iranian flag (albeit in reverse order), and the Tajiks are the only one of the former Soviet Central Asian nationalities who speak a Persian-related language than a Turkic one. Could this choice of colours be deliberate?
Roy Stilling 26 Nov 1995

Tajikistan become an internationally recognized independent state in 9 September 1991.
Stuart Notholt, 25 Nov 1995

This flag have been consistent and insistently reported as being in use in 1991-1992 without the hammer and sickle.
António Martins, 19 Jun 2001

Reverse of the flag

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

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

Coat of arms

soviet tajik CoA tj.gif)
image by M. Schmöger, 11 Sep 2001 (source: [hzg80])

The emblem of the SSR was introduced 1 March 1937 (according to Hesmer [hes92]) and replaced by a later one November 1992.
M. Schmöger, 16 Sep 2001

This simplified coat of arms was adopted in 1937, 8 years after the previous, aproved in 1929.
Victor Lomantsov, 02 Dec 2002

On a webpagedealing with the 15 federal units which composed the soviet Union in its latest stage (constitution quotes from the 1980 versions), depicting (quite poorly) the respective flags and arms. The emblem of Tadzhik SSR is shown without star.
António Martins, 29 Nov 2002

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