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This flag was adopted by the Russian SFSR in 1954. The constitution stipulated: Large sized flag of Russian SFSR Flag not the best accuracy. ... Large sized flag of Russian SFSR Flag not the best accuracy. ... State motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Workers of the world, unite!) Official language None (Russian in practice) Capital Moscow (last) Chairman of the Supreme Council Boris Yeltsin Established In the USSR:  - Since  - Until November 7, 1917 December 30, 1922 December 12, 1991 Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 1st in former Soviet Union 17,075,200... Jump to: navigation, search 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The state flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic presents itself as a red rectangular sheet with a light-blue stripe at the pole extending all the width [read height] which constitutes one eighth length of the flag.

Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag, the flag was red with the gold Cyrillic characters РСФСР (RSFSR) in the top-left corner, in a serif font. Jump to: navigation, search 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...


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Soviet Flag: 1:4 ratio July 1923-November 13, 1923 The first official flag of the Soviet Union was adopted in December of 1922 at the First Congress of Soviets of the USSR it was agreed that the red banner was transformed from the symbol of the Party to the... Flag of the Russian Federation Romanov dynastic flag was used as the official national flag of the Russian Empire from 1858 to 1883. ... This is a list of flags used in Russia // National Flag President Military Historic ...

Flags of the Soviet Republics
Armenian SSR - Azerbaijan SSR - Byelorussian SSR - Estonian SSR - Georgian SSR - Kazakh SSR - Kirghiz SSR - Latvian SSR - Lithuanian SSR - Moldavian SSR - Russian SFSR - Tadzhik SSR - Turkmen SSR - Ukrainian SSR - Uzbek SSR

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Flag of Russia information - Search.com (596 words)
This flag was used as naval and military ensign since 1693 at least, and was adopted as a merchant flag in 1705.
Allegedly, he based Russia's flag on the flag of the Netherlands, making it a tricolour with three equal horizontal fields, but he chose Russian colors for it (the flag of the Netherlands at that time was orange, white and blue, with no red).
A variant of the flag was authorised for private use by Tsar Nicholas II during World War I, adding the Romanov eagle on a yellow field in a canton in the top left-hand corner.
Flag of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (444 words)
Romanov dynastic flag was used as the official national flag of the Russian Empire from 1858 to 1883.
He based Russia's flag on the flag of the Netherlands, making it a tricolour with three equal horizontal fields, but he chose Russian colors for it (the flag of the Netherlands at that time was orange, white and blue, with no red).
This flag was thus in use as naval ensign since the 1600s, and was adopted as a merchant flag in 1705.
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