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Adopted 21 November 1949. Light blue bar in base, covering
1/3 of the height. See here detailed
construction information of the
hammer and sickle.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997
According to Constitution of Ukrainian SSR: the distance from the hoist of
the flag to the centre of star (and of the hammer-and-sickle, of course) is
equal to 1/3 of flag’s length.
Victor Lomantsov, 20 Oct 2000
image by António Martins, 19 Oct 2000 | |
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
In this
“soviet”
site it is shown an erroneous representation of the flag of the
Ukrainian SSR, with dark blue instead of light blue.
António Martins, 29 Nov 2002
The emblem of the SSR was introduced 14 March 1919
(according to Hesmer [hes92])
and was replaced by the current one
in 19 February 1992.
Marcus Schmöger, 16 Sep 2001
According to my soviet sources (thus this is/was the “official truth”), the whole list for soviet Ukraine regions’ creation date is: