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Red with in the upper hoist yellow cyrillic
initials ("USSR") in sans-serif.
Mark Sensen, 23 Apr 1996
This is from [iva71], which shows serif
and sans-serif fonts for different flags but I don’t know if that means
that was the type of font prescribed or really used.
Mark Sensen, 12 Feb 2003
The ukrainian flag of 1923 was red with yellow initials
(no hammer & sickle). The inscription was "U.S.S.R."
(looks like "y.c.c.p.").
Victor Lomantsov, 21 Dec 2001
In the ukrainian flag of 1927 the inscription was "U.S.R.R."
(looks like "y.c.p.p.").
Victor Lomantsov, 21 Dec 2001
Red with in the upper hoist yellow cyrillic
initials (USSR) in sanserif. Yellow border around
the canton.
Mark Sensen, 13 May 1996
Red with in the upper hoist yellow cyrillic initials
(URSR) in serif. Little yellow hammer and sickle above.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1996
Hammer and sickle were added to the ukrainian flag in 1937.
In this year the new abbreviation of the country name was
adopted — "U.R.S.R." (looks like "y.p.c.p.").
Victor Lomantsov, 21 Dec 2001
Red with in the upper hoist yellow cyrillic initials (URSR) in sanserif.
Yellow hammer and sickle below.
Mark Sensen, 02 Jun 1996
This flag was replaced by a new one
in 21 November 1949.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1997
This is a flag suposed to be the one of the SSR Carpathian Ukraine
(1945-1946). Was published in [tfb] and
reproduced also in other bulletins.
Jaume Ollé, 28 Dec 2001
It’s a red flag with golden inscription and a golden mirrored hammer
and sickle in the upper hoist, topped by a largish solid star. Sokolov
[sol83] shows this emblem in black on white
line draw, which I redrawn as solid golden yellow with red lining (on red
background). Only observing the real flag is possible to confirm or correct
this.
António Martins, 26 Sep 2002
According to Sokolov’s Flags and Arms of Ukraine [sol83], the inscription reads:
ХАЙ ЖИВЕ ВОЗЗ’ЄДНАННЯ(Qaĭ ẑive vozz’ẹdnannâ Zakarpatshkoị̈ Ukraị̈ni z Radânshkoû Ukraị̈noû). This means «Long live the Union of the Transcarpathian Ukraine with the People’s Ukraine».
ЗАКАРПАТСЬКОЇ УКРАЇНИ
З РАДЯНСЬКОЮ УКРАЇНОЮ
The inscription, in Ukrainian, refers to the goal of joining this wartime
entity into the Soviet Union, which evenually happened in 1946.01.22,
Transcarpathian Ukraine becoming a region of Soviet Ukraine
(Zakarpatskaâ oblasth). This territory had been changing hands between
the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.
Now it is a region of independent Ukraine.
António Martins, 26 Sep 2002
My image follows [sol83] in all details, except for the exact typeface (I used a more usual serif type, not the slightly decorative serif type of [sol83]), which may not be too important, as Sokolov’s choice may be also not 100% faithful to the original flag (and if there were more than one original flag, it’s almost certain that there were typeface differences between them).
Three typographic details of the original were kept and are of note:
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