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	9 January 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."
Designed by	Valentin Petrovich Viktorov
	Flag of the Russian SFSR (Dark blue version)
Use	Historical
Proportion	1:2
	Flag of the Russian SFSR (1991)
Use	Historical
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	1 November 1991

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.

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 star represents the CPSU and communism. The red in the flag represents the Russian revolution and revolution in general. The blue stripe symbolizes the wide Russian skies and the waters of its seas and rivers.

History

Between 1918 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 Vyaz' style of ornamental Cyrillic calligraphy.

A tricolor with the hammer and sickle on the centre was proposed.^[1]

After the events of the attempted coup in Moscow, Boris Yeltsin, the president of the Russian SFSR adopted a resolution that the imperial tricolor flag based on the Russian Empire to be flown alongside with the Soviet flag until 26 December 1991. It was first hoisted at 12:00 pm on 22 August 1991 at the White House.

Gallery

First flag of the Russian SFSR (14 April—17 June 1918), showing the full name of the recently born Soviet republic before the then imminent Russian spelling reform. Its ratio was unspecified.
Flag of the Russian SFSR (17 June 1918-1920)
Flag of the Russian SFSR (1920–21 January 1937) as described in the Russian Constitution of 1925. This flag was oftentimes not used, with the 1918 flag being used until 1937.
Flag of the Kemerovo oblast based on the flag of the RSFSR.
Flag of Altai Krai
Flag of Vladimir Oblast
Flag of Oryol
Protesters occupied the Security Service of Ukraine building in Luhansk with the Russian SFSR flag viewed from the left.