Flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic

Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
(Kazakhstan)

Use	Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	24 January 1953
Design	A red flag with blue stripe and a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton.

The flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted by the Kazakh government on 24 January 1953. This flag resembles the flag of the Soviet Union but with the 2/9 (two-ninths) of the blue bar in lower part of flag and the hammer and sickle in the near centre. The red represents the traditional workers and peasants' revolution, and the blue stripe also the symbol of religious significance to the Turkic peoples of the republic, and the cultural and ethnic unity; it also represents the endless sky as well as water.

History

Prior to this, the flag was red with the gold hammer and sickle in the top-left corner, with the Cyrillic characters Казак ССР (Kazak SSR) and Казахская ССР (Kazakhskaya SSR) in gold to the right of the hammer and sickle.

Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag in the 1940s, the flag was red with a gold hammer and sickle in the top-left corner, with the Latin characters QAZAQ SSR and the Cyrillic characters КАЗАХСКАЯ ССР (KAZAKHSKAYA SSR) in gold in a sans-serif font beneath the hammer and sickle.

Other flags

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  Flag of the Kazakh SSR (1937–1940)
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  Flag of the Kazakh SSR (1940–1953)

See also

• Flag of the Soviet Union
• Coat of arms of the Kazakh SSR
• Flag of Kazakhstan