Flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic


The flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was the red Soviet flag with white and green stripes below the gold hammer and sickle, with the measures: 1/2 red, 1/5 white, 1/10 green, 1/5 red. The flag sported the Pan-Iranian colors of red, white and green, as a nod to the republic's Persian-descended culture. The flag was adopted on March 20, 1953 by decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Tajik SSR:
The red represents the unity of the republic and the aspect of workers' revolution, white symbolized cotton production, the basis of Tajik agriculture, and the green was for other agricultural produce.
After 1953, the flag received a unique reverse side. The reverse side of the flag was the same as the obverse with the exception of it lacking the yellow hammer and sickle. In 1991, after Tajikistan became an independent country, the reverse side was used as the national flag until a new flag was created and adopted in 1992.

Historical flags

The first specifically Tajik flag was introduced in 1929. Before that, Tajikistan had been part of the Bukharan SSR ; before the Russian revolution it had been part of the Emirate of Bukhara.
23 February 1929 – April 1929First flag of the Tajik ASSRAdopted on 23 February 1929, with the coat of arms in the top-left corner.
April 1929 – 24 February 1931Flag of the Tajik ASSR
24 February 1931 – 04.07.1935Flag of the Tajik SSRLatin script
04.07.1935 – 26 May 1936Flag of the Tajik SSRLatin script
26 September 1936 – 1938Flag of the Tajik SSRLatin and Cyrillic script, with hammer and sickle
1938 – 28 September 1940Flag of the Tajik SSRLatin and Cyrillic script
28 September 1940 – 1953Flag of the Tajik SSRCyrillic script only, in Tajik and Russian.
20 April 1953 – 9 September 1991Flag of the Tajik SSRA red banner with a large white and small green stripe in the middle. The colors are a nod to the republic's Persian-influenced culture.
20 April 1953 – 24 November 1992
10 September 1991 – 24 November 1992		Flag of the Tajik SSRWithout hammer and sickle, also reversed flag. Following the events of the failed coup in Moscow, Tajikistan declared independence from the Soviet Union.

Following independence on September 9, 1991, the reverse side of the Tajik SSR flag remained in use as the Tajik national flag until a new Tajik flag was adopted in November 1992, becoming the last post-Soviet country to receive a completely new flag.