Flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Flag of Karakalpak ASSR.svg
Flag of the Karakalpak ASSR (1978–1992)
UseState and war flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flagSmall vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag
Proportion1:2
Adopted12 June 1954
27 October 1978 (minor changes)
DesignA triband flag with the colors (from top to bottom) red, blue, and red, with the blue band frimbrated in white, with a golden hammer and sickle in the upper canton.

The flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted in 1954 by the government of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The flag is identical to the flag of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.

History[]

First version[]

The 2nd Congress of Soviets of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic from 21 until 25 December 1934 adopted the Constitution of the Karakalpak ASSR. The flag of the Karakalpak ASSR was described in the Article 109 of the constitution.

The state flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic consists of a panel of red (scarlet) color, rectangular, with a ratio of length to width - as two to one. In the left corner of the flag, near the pole there are golden letters "RSFSR" and "Karakalpak ASSR" - in Karakalpak and Russian languages.

— Constitution of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1934), Article 109

Second version[]

On December 5, 1936, the Karakalpak ASSR became part of the Uzbek SSR. The new state symbols was approved in the Constitution, adopted by the 3rd Extraordinary Congress of Soviets of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in October 1936,[1] and approved by the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Uzbek SSR on September 29, 1937. The flag of the Karakalpak ASSR was described in the Article 111 of the constitution.

The state flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is the state flag of the Uzbek SSR, consisting of a red cloth, in the left corner of which, at the top of the tree, are placed the golden letters “Uzbek SSR” in Uzbek, with the letters under the inscription “Uzbek SSR” the inscription "KaraKalpak ASSR" in Karakalpak language.

— Constitution of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1936), Article 111[2]

Revision[]

In accordance with the official change of the writing system of the Uzbek language on 8 May 1940.

Gallery[]

  • Flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1934—1937)

  • Flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1937—1941)

  • Flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1941—1952)

  • Flag of the Karakalpak Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1952—1991)

References[]

Citations[]

  1. ^ Supreme Soviet of the Karakalpak ASSR 1940, p. 1
  2. ^ Supreme Soviet of the Karakalpak ASSR 1940, p. 27

Bibliography[]

Constitutions[]

Books[]

  • Petrov, N.E. (1973), Орфография якутского языка [Orthography of Karakalpak] (in Russian), Moscow: Nauka
  • Sokolov, Vladislav Aleksandrovich (2002), Вексиллологический справочник по флагам Российской Империй и СССР [Vexillological guide on flags of Russian Empire and USSR] (in Russian), vol. 1, Moscow: Moscow State Industrial University, p. 644, ISBN 978-5-276-00240-8
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