Proportion 1:2 Use Reverse flag | Adopted 22 December 1952 Proportion 1:2 | |
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Design A red field with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton with two navy blue bars and a white stripe in the middle of the flag. |
The flag of Kirghiz SSR was adopted by the on December 22, 1952. The 1978 constitution of the Kirghiz SSR states that the ratio of the flag is 1:2 with the blue/white/blue stripes in the middle taking 1⁄3 of the flag height and the white stripes 1⁄20 of flag height.
History
Prior to this, the flag was red with gold Cyrillic characters in the top-left corner, КЫРГЫЗ ССР (Kyrgyz SSR) and КИРГИЗСКАЯ ССР (Kirgizskaya SSR) in a sans-serif font.
References
Flag of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA