File:Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (1953–1990).svg

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Description

Eesti: Eesti NSV lipp

Русский: Флаг Эстонской ССР

العربية: علم دولة إستونيا السوفيتية

مصرى: ده علم كيان استونيا السوفييتى

Brezhoneg: Banniel Republik Sokialour Soviedel Estonia

English: Flag of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

Français : Drapeau de la République socialiste soviétique d'Estonie

Date

2005 (SVG file)

Source

Own work based on publicly-available information.

Author

First-uploaded SVG file versions authored by Urmas, Nokka

Permission
(Reusing this file)

Communist symbol

Legal disclaimer
This image contains a symbol prohibited by law in some nations, owing to it being a representation of communism, socialism, or a similar governmental structure; or of an associated political party/organization:

Georgia's parliament: On Amending the Law of Georgia "Charter of Liberty", No. 1867, 2013
Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly: UU No. 27/1999
Latvia's Saeima: Amendments to the Law on the Safety of Public Entertainment and Festivity Events (OP 2013/129.4). Ban only applies at public events.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court confirms Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences. Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.
South Korea's National Security Act (prohibited for symbols or emblems related to North Korea)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

Imagery covered may include the hammer and sickle^en, red star, emblems/insignias, flags or images of leaders.

العربية ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ euskara ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ Gàidhlig ∙ galego ∙ हिन्दी ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ Bahaso Jambi ∙ қазақша ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ ไทย ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Other versions

Derivative works of this file: Flag map of the Estonian SSR (1953–1990).svg

Color scheme

	Red	Yellow	Blue	White
Pantone	`18-1664 TC`	`13-0858 TC`	`18-3949 TC`	`White`
RGB	`206/0/0`	`255/216/0`	`13/74/189`	`255/255/255`
Hexadecimal	`#CE0000`	`#FFD800`	`#0D4ABD`	`#FFFFFF`
CMYK	`0/100/100/19`	`0/15/100/0`	`93/60/0/25`	`0/0/0/0`

Licensing

According to the Republic of Estonia Copyright Act (passed on November 11, 1992; consolidated text May 2006):

§ 5. Results of intellectual activities to which this Act does not apply

1) ideas, images, notions, theories, processes, systems, methods, concepts, principles, discoveries, inventions, and other results of intellectual activities which are described, explained or expressed in any other manner in a work;
2) works of folklore;
3) legislation and administrative documents (acts, decrees, regulations, statutes, instructions, directives) and official translations thereof;
4) court decisions and official translations thereof;
5) official symbols of the state and insignia of organisations (flags, coats of arms, orders, medals, badges, etc.);
6) news of the day;
7) facts and data;
8) ideas and principles which underlie any element of a computer program, including those which underlie its user interfaces.

Hence it is assumed that this image has been released into the public domain. However, in some instances the use of this image might be regulated by other laws.

As per legal code construction sheet: File:Flag the USSR schema Sbornik zakonov 1938-1956.svg

Note: Estonia is the legal successor of the Estonian SSR; therefore, this license tag is also applicable to official symbols and formal documents of the Estonian SSR.

I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:32, 6 May 2025	1,200 × 600 (4 KB)	Victor Bing	Redraw the white and blue stripes as per the construction sheet from https://www.digar.ee/arhiiv/nlib-digar:249066. These stripes are also "flattened" to more closely resemble vintage flags.
	14:29, 16 May 2024	1,200 × 600 (4 KB)	Tcfc2349	reduce size
	18:04, 19 November 2023	1,200 × 600 (6 KB)	Great Brightstar	Some structural changes
	12:58, 19 November 2023	1,200 × 600 (7 KB)	Great Brightstar	Improve white stripes, inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAD1MRBi74
	19:14, 19 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (4 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 03:11, 17 December 2018 (UTC) Current consensus on File_talk:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg is in favor of the 1 December hammer and sickle
	03:33, 17 December 2018	800 × 400 (5 KB)	Pedro8790	Reverted to version as of 21:23, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
	03:11, 17 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (4 KB)	Thespoondragon	Reverted to version as of 23:20, 1 December 2018 (UTC) File_talk:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg
	21:23, 16 December 2018	800 × 400 (5 KB)	Pedro8790	Reverted to version as of 19:09, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
	23:20, 1 December 2018	1,200 × 600 (4 KB)	Thespoondragon	per construction sheets, see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg
	19:09, 25 November 2018	800 × 400 (5 KB)	Mundopopular	Reverted to version as of 17:49, 25 November 2018 (UTC) Edit has been reverted to original version. Take to talk page, no edit wars.