Estonia in the Soviet Union

Êstonskaâ SSR / Eesti NSV

Last modified: 2023-07-03 by antónio martins
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Эстонская ССР / Eesti NSV

• Description of the flag
• Reverse of the flag
• 1918 tricolor flag allowed?
• Coat of arms

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• Image of an actual flag
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 03 Oct 2002

Description of the flag

Adopted in 6 February 1953; wavy white and blue line in lower part.
Željko Heimer, 17 Apr 1996

Judging from the image at Raynaud Vagues soviet flag exhibition website, the hammer and sickle emblem on the soviet Estonia flag has the same size and placement specs than in the soviet national flag.
António Martins, 18 Nov 2002

Reverse of the flag

image by Željko Heimer, 17 Apr 1996 |

No hammer, sickle and star on the reverse side.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997

Officially reverse looked like obverse without star and hammer-sickle. But in fact I never saw these flags without star, hammer-sickle. Real flags (all 15) usually were either with reverse analogous to obverse (but with star and hammer-and-sickle near the hoist) or with reverse = mirrored obverse.
Victor Lomantsov, 30 Nov 2002

1918 tricolor flag allowed?

I was aware at the time that Mikhail Gorbachev had decided to let Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia fly their 1918 national flags, in addition to their S.S.R. flags.
John Crosby, 23 May 2001

Coat of arms

The emblem of the SSR was used until 8 May 1990 (introduction date not mentioned by Hesmer [hes92], but probably 1940).
Marcus Schmöger, 16 Sep 2001

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