| Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic | |
| Imagetext: | Flag of the Latvian SSR (1953–1990) |
| Use: | 110110 |
| Proportion: | 1:2 |
| Adoption: | 17 January 1953 |
| Design: | A plain red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton with the blue and white rippling water at the bottom. |
| Imagetext2: | Reverse flag |
| Use2: | Reverse flag |
| Proportion2: | 1:2 |
| Design2: | A red field with a blue-white wave pattern on the bottom. |
The flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic shows a yellow hammer and sickle and outlined star on a red field above rippling water at the bottom,[1] and was adopted by the (former) Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic on January 17, 1953.
The first socialist Latvian state, the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic, shown a red flag with the inscription LSPR.
Prior to this, from 25 August 1940, the flag was red with the gold hammer and sickle in the top-left corner, with the Latin characters LPSR (Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika) above them in gold in a serif font.
The Soviet-era flag was officially replaced on 27 February 1990, when the national flag of Latvia was reintroduced. Since 2013, the use of a Latvian SSR flag at public events is banned.[2]