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Emblems of the Soviet Republics

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USSR State Television]], {{circa}} 1950s.

The emblems of the constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics all featured predominantly the hammer and sickle and the red star that symbolized communism, as well as a rising sun (although in the case of the Latvian SSR, since the Baltic Sea is west of Latvia, it could be interpreted as a setting sun), surrounded by a wreath of wheat (except the Karelo-Finnish SSR with a wreath of rye). The USSR State motto, Workers of the world, unite!, in both the republic's language and Russian was also placed on each one of them. In addition to those repetitive motifs, emblems of many Soviet republics also included features that were characteristic of their local landscapes, economies or cultures.

The emblems are often called coats of arms, but since they (deliberately) did not follow the rules of heraldry, most of them cannot be considered coats of arms. However, they all did follow the same basic pattern, a pattern which sometimes has led to the use of the term "socialist heraldry".

By the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991, only Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova had adopted new official arms, while the other ones retained the Soviet emblems until new ones were adopted in the years following.

Emblems of the Soviet Republics

The table below presents final versions of the renderings of the Soviet republics' emblems prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, as well as the arms of two republics that ceased to exist before that time. For comparison, national arms of present-day successor states of the Soviet republics are also shown. As can be seen, most Central Asian post-Soviet republics use arms based on or reminiscent of the Soviet-era emblems, with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have present-day arms nearly identical to the Soviet one. Most European republics, on the other hand, reverted to their traditional pre-Soviet heraldic arms. Belarus used the traditional Pahonia as its coat of arms from 1991 to 1995 when it was replaced by a new emblem closely resembling the Soviet-era design.

Republic	Emblem	Main article	Republic-specific features	Present-day national
coat of arms	Russian SFSR	Ukraine	Byelorussia	Uzbekistan	Kazakhstan	Georgia	Azerbaijan	Lithuania	Moldavia	Latvia	Kirghizia	Tajikistan	Armenia	Turkmenistan	Estonia	Republics that dissolved before 1991	Karelo-Finnish SSR
(1940–1956)	Transcaucasian SFSR
(1922–1936)
[[File:COA Russian SFSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Russian SFSR	Plants	wheat	[[File:Coat of Arms of the Russian Federation.svg	80px	]]
Coat of arms of Russia
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments	Baroque cartouche
[[File:Emblem of the Ukrainian SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Ukrainian SSR	Plants	wheat	[[File:Lesser Coat of Arms of Ukraine.svg	70px	]]
Coat of arms of Ukraine
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments	Baroque cartouche
[[File:Emblem of the Byelorussian SSR (1981-1991).svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Byelorussian SSR	Plants	wheat, clover, flax	[[File:Coat of arms of Belarus (2020).svg	90px	]]
Emblem of Belarus
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Uzbek SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Uzbek SSR	Plants	wheat, cotton	[[File:Emblem of Uzbekistan.svg	90px	]]
Emblem of Uzbekistan
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of Kazakh SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Kazakh SSR	Plant	wheat	[[File:Emblem of Kazakhstan latin.svg	90px	]]
Emblem of Kazakhstan
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Georgian SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Georgian SSR	Plants	wheat, grapes	[[File:Greater_coat_of_arms_of_Georgia.svg	100px	]]
Coat of arms of Georgia
Landscapes,
geographic features	Caucasus Mountains
Industry
Ornaments	Georgian ornament with a seven-pointed star from the pre-1921 Georgian coat of arms
[[File:Emblem of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1978–1991), Emblem of Azerbaijan (1991–1993).svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Azerbaijan SSR	Plants	wheat, cotton	[[File:Emblem of Azerbaijan.svg	90px	]]
Emblem of Azerbaijan
Landscapes,
geographic features	Sun rising on Caspian Sea
Industry	oil drilling rig
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Lithuanian SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Lithuanian SSR	Plants	wheat, oak	[[File:Coat of arms of Lithuania.svg	80px	]]
Coat of arms of Lithuania
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Moldavian SSR (1981-1990).svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Moldavian SSR	Plants	wheat, maize, pears, grapes	[[File:Coat of arms of Moldova.svg	90px	]]
Coat of arms of Moldova
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Latvian SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Latvian SSR	Plants	wheat	[[File:Coat of arms of Latvia.svg	100px	]]
Coat of arms of Latvia
Landscapes,
geographic features	Baltic Sea
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Kirghiz SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Kirghiz SSR	Plants	wheat, cotton	[[File:Emblem of Kyrgyzstan.svg	90px	]]
Emblem of Kyrgyzstan
Landscapes,
geographic features	Tian Shan Mountains
Industry
Ornaments	Kyrgyz embroidery
[[File:Emblem of the Tajik SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Tajik SSR	Plants	wheat, cotton	[[File:Emblem of Tajikistan.svg	90px	]]
Emblem of Tajikistan
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Armenian SSR.png	130x130px]]	Emblem of the Armenian SSR	Plants	wheat, grapes	[[File:Coat of arms of Armenia.svg	90px	]]
Coat of arms of Armenia
Landscapes,
geographic features	title=Armenia in the Soviet Union	url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/su-am.html	publisher=crwflags.com	access-date=5 December 2012}}
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Turkmen SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Turkmen SSR	Plants	wheat, cotton, grapes	[[File:Emblem of Turkmenistan.svg	90px	]]
Emblem of Turkmenistan
Landscapes,
geographic features	Turkmen landscape
Industry	oil drilling rig
Ornaments	gillam detail from a Turkmen rug
[[File:Emblem_of_the_Estonian_SSR.svg	130px	]]	Emblem of the Estonian SSR	Plants	rye, pine, spruce	[[File:Coat of arms of Estonia.svg	90px	]]
Coat of arms of Estonia
Landscapes,
geographic features
Industry
Ornaments
[[File:Emblem of the Karelo-Finnish SSR.svg	130px	]]	Coat of arms of the Karelo-Finnish SSR	Plants	rye, pine	[[File:Coat of arms of the Republic of Karelia.svg	90px	]]
Coat of arms of Karelia
(constituent entity of Russia)
Landscapes,
geographic features	Karelian landscape
Industry
Ornaments	Karelian embroidery
[[File:Emblem_of_the_Transcaucasian_SFSR_(1930-1936).svg	140px	]]	Emblem of the Transcaucasian SFSR	Plants	Wheat, cotton, maize, rice, grapes
Landscapes,
geographic features	Caucasus mountains
Industry	Factory, oil drilling rigs
Ornaments

Derived designs

The secessionist Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria), internationally recognised as part of Moldova, uses an emblem based on the emblem of the Moldavian SSR. Coat of arms of Transnistria.svg|Emblem of the self-proclaimed Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Coat of arms of the Russian Federation (1992-1993).svg|

References

"Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union". crwflags.com.
"Coats of arms". azerbaijans.com.
"Государственные гербы и флаги республик СССР". sovietthings.webuda.com.
"Armenia in the Soviet Union". crwflags.com.
"Estonia in the Soviet Union". flags-of-the-world.net.

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