Flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

The flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic shows a yellow hammer and sickle and outlined star on a red field above rippling water at the bottom,<ref>Guide to the Flags of the World by Mauro Talocci, revised and updated by Whitney Smith (Template:ISBN), p. 20.</ref> and was adopted by the former Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic on January 17, 1953.

History

The first socialist Latvian state, the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic, shown a red flag with the inscription LSPR.

Prior to this, from 25 August 1940, the flag was red with the gold hammer and sickle in the top-left corner, with the Latin characters LPSR (Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika) above them in gold in a serif font.

The Soviet-era flag was officially replaced on 27 February 1990, when the national flag of Latvia was reintroduced. Since 2013, the use of a Latvian SSR flag at public events is banned.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Gallery

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  Flag of the Latvian SSR (1918–1920)
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  Flag of the Latvian SSR (1940–1953)
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  Early variant of the flag of the Latvian SSR (1953–1967)<ref>Book by Latvian Vexillologist Aloizs Luksa</ref>
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  Flag of the Latvian SSR (1953–1990)

See also

• Coat of arms of the Latvian SSR
• Flag of the Soviet Union
• Flag of Latvia