Coat of arms of Transnistria
Coat of arms of Transnistria | |
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Versions | |
Armiger | Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic |
Adopted | 1991 |
Shield | Soviet-style emblem with a hammer and sickle |
Supporters | Stalks of wheat, corn, grape and clover surround the emblem |
Motto | Moldavian Cyrillic: Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская Республика Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська Республіка |
Other elements | Red star, rising sun |
The coat of arms of Transnistria constitutes a remodeled version of the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic emblem, as substituted by the internationally recognized Moldovan government after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The only major pictorial change made in the Transnistrian version involves the addition of waves, representing the River Dniester. However, the inscriptions on the banner were changed: unlike the Moldavian SSR emblem, which bore the acronym "РССМ" (for "Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic") and the USSR state slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" in the Russian and Moldavian languages, the Transnistrian emblem bears the name "Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic" in the Moldovan, Russian and Ukrainian languages. In Moldavian, it reads "Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ" (transliterated: "Republica Moldoveneascǎ Nistreanǎ"); in Russian, it reads "Приднестровская Молдавская Республика" (transliterated: "Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika"); and, in Ukrainian, it reads "Придністровська Молдавська Республіка" (transliterated: "Prydnistrovśka Moldavśka Respublika"). Despite the emblem's depiction of the hammer and sickle, Transnistria is not a socialist state.
See also
External links
- Media related to Coats of arms of Transnistria at Wikimedia Commons
- Coat of arms of Pridnestrovie
- Politics of Transnistria
- Coats of arms of unrecognized or largely unrecognized states
- Coats of arms with clover
- Coats of arms with suns
- Coats of arms with sunrays
- Coats of arms with the hammer and sickle
- Coats of arms with stars
- Coats of arms with grapes
- Coats of arms with maize
- Coats of arms with fruit
- Moldova stubs
- Transnistria stubs