Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic explained

Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Use:110110
Imagetext2:Reverse flag
Proportion:1:2
Adoption:11 April 1951
Design:A plain red flag with the red hammer and sickle with a red star in a blue sun in canton, blue bar in upper part of flag
Designer:Severian Maysashvili Davidovich
Imagetext3:Flag of the Georgian SSR / Republic of Georgia (1990–1991)
Image3:Flag of Georgia (1990-2004).svg
Use3:111110
Proportion3:3:5
Adoption3:1 November 1990
Design3:A crimson flag with a horizontal bicolor of black and white in the canton corner.

The flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted by the Georgian SSR on April 11, 1951.

It was the only Union Republic flag in which the hammer and sickle was not gold in colour, instead being red.

History

Before 1937 the flag was red with the Georgian characters სსსრ (SSSR) in gold in the top-left corner.

Between 1922 and 1937, the flag was red, with the Cyrillic characters ССРГ (SSRG) in the top left-hand corner.

Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag in the 1940s, the flag was red, with the Georgian characters საქართველოს სსრ (Sakartvelos SSR) in gold in the top-left corner.

The 1951 flag fell into disuse in November 1990 when the flag based on the Democratic Republic of Georgia was introduced until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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