Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
(Ukraine)
Use	Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign
Proportion	1:2
Adopted	5 July 1950
Relinquished	28 January 1992 (stopped being a national flag); 21 May 2015 (made the use of the flag illegal)
Design	A horizontal bicolour of red over azure (light blue) with the golden hammer and sickle and gold-bordered star on top of the canton
	Reverse flag

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The first flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR) was adopted on 10 March 1919 to serve as the symbol of state of the Ukrainian SSR. Details of the official flag changed periodically before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but all had as their basis the communist red flag. According to the decree of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of Ukrainian SSR on 21 November 1949, the blue in the bottom "symbolises the mightiness and beauty of the people, and the blue banner of Bohdan Khmelnytsky".^[1]

^ "Flagi UkrSSR" Флаги УкрССР [Flags of the Ukrainian SSR]. www.vexillographia.ru. Retrieved 2017-12-22. The azure colour symbolised the greatness and beauty of the people, as well as the "colour of the banners of Bogdan Khmelnitsky"

[1] "Flagi UkrSSR" Флаги УкрССР [Flags of the Ukrainian SSR]. www.vexillographia.ru. Retrieved 2017-12-22. The azure colour symbolised the greatness and beauty of the people, as well as the "colour of the banners of Bogdan Khmelnitsky"

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