Flag of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic
Proportion | 1:2 |
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Adopted | 22 December 1952 |
Design | A red field with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton with two navy blue bars and a white stripe in the middle of the flag. |
Flag of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic without the hammer and sickle. (Also used before 1992). | |
Use | Reverse flag |
Proportion | 1:2 |
The flag of Kirghiz SSR was adopted by the on December 22, 1952. The 1978 constitution of the Kirghiz SSR states that the ratio of the flag is 1:2 with the blue/white/blue stripes in the middle taking 1⁄3 of the flag height and the white stripes 1⁄20 of flag height.
History
Prior to this, the flag was red with gold Cyrillic characters in the top-left corner, КЫРГЫЗ ССР (Kyrgyz SSR) and КИРГИЗСКАЯ ССР (Kirgizskaya SSR) in a serif font.
See also
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