Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
(Byelorussia)

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Use	Civil and state flag
Proportion	1:2[1]
Adopted	25 December 1951
Relinquished	25 August 1991
Design	A horizontal bicolor of red over green in a 2:1 ratio and the golden hammer and sickle with the bordered star on the canton, with a white ornamental pattern on a red vertical stripe at the hoist.
Designed by	Mikhail Husyev
Reverse flag
Use	Civil and state flag
Бел-чырвона-белы сцяг ("The White, Red and White Flag")
Flag of the Byelorussian SSR and of the Republic of Belarus (1991)
Use	National flag
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	25 August 1991
Design	A horizontal triband of white, red and white
Designed by	Klaudzi Duzh-Dusheuski

The Flag of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on 25 December 1951. Prior to this, the flag was red with the Cyrillic characters БССР (BSSR) in gold in the top-left corner, surrounded by a gold border. Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag in the 1940s, the flag was the same, but with a gold hammer and sickle above the Cyrillic characters and no border. Between 1919 and 1937, the flag was red, with the Cyrillic characters ССРБ (SSRB) in the top left-hand corner. In early 1919, a plain red flag was used. The final BSSR flag was used until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. A flag based on this Soviet design is used as the national flag of Belarus.