Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Flag of the Russian SFSR (1954–1991)
Use	Historical
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	January 9, 1954
Design	"The state flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic presents itself as a red rectangular sheet with a light-blue stripe at the pole extending all the width which constitutes one eighth length of the flag."
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1918–1937)
Use	Historical
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	June 17, 1918
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1937–1954)
Use	Historical
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	January 21, 1937
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1991)
Use	Historical
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	November 1, 1991

Flag of the Russian SFSR (1920–1937) as described in the Russian Constitution of 1925. Actually was not used, 1918 flag is used until 1937.

First flag of the Russian SFSR (14 April—17 June 1918), showing full name of the Soviet republic. Ratio was unspecified

De jure flag of Russia (1917–1918)^{[citation needed]}. Not used by Bolsheviks due to representing old political regime in Russia^{[citation needed]}. Flag ratio: 2:3

Flag of the Kemerovo oblast based on the flag of the RSFSR.

Last Soviet-era (before 1991) flag was adopted by the Russian SFSR in 1954. The constitution stipulated:

The state flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 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.

Between 1937 and the adoption of the flag to the right, the flag was red with the gold Cyrillic characters РСФСР (RSFSR) in the top-left corner, in a traditional viaz' style of ornamental Cyrillic calligraphy.

The flag of RSFSR is a defacement of the flag of the Soviet Union.

Like the flag of the Soviet Union, the hammer and sickle represents the working class and more specifically, the hammer represents the urban industrial workers and the sickle represents the rural and agricultural peasants. The red in the flag represents the Russian revolution and revolution in general.

See also

• Flag of the Soviet Union
• Coat of arms of the Russian SFSR
• Flag of Russia
• List of Russian flags
• Defacement (flag)