The Museum of the History of Tatar Statehood and the Republic of Tatarstan contains a copy of the flag of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the 1978 model.
The flag of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) is the official symbol of the country which was the personification of ‘the state sovereignty of the RSFSR, the voluntary unification of the RSFSR with other equal republics into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the inviolable union of workers, peasants and intelligentsia, friendship and brotherhood of workers of all nations and nationalities of the republic, building a communist society’.
The flag presented itself as a red, rectangular sheet with a gold hammer and sickle and a red five-pointed star in the upper corner. The composition was framed by a golden border. The proportion of the flag’s width to its length is 1:2. The red colour for the flag was not chosen by chance – it symbolized the revolution and the heroic struggle of the Soviet people for the development of socialism and communism. The image of the hammer and sickle signified the unity of the workers’ and peasants’ forces. The letters on the front flag were gold, but in everyday life they were often replaced with yellow ones. The five-pointed star is the personification of the triumph of the ideas of communism on the five inhabited continents of the globe.
The first official symbols of the regions did not differ from the state coat of arms and flag, except that the designations of the autonomy itself were added to them. Since 1954, the inscription “TASSR” was placed on the flag of the Tatar ASSR. After the adoption of the new Constitution in 1978, the inscription was changed to “Tatar ASSR”, and it was written in two lines.
The official flags were used in state institutions of the republic, during festive events and award ceremonies. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the flag of Tatarstan became a rectangular tricolour of green, white and red stripes. The author of the project was Tavil Khaziakhmetov, People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, laureate of G. Tukai State Award.
It is believed that green symbolizes spring and rebirth; white is the colour of purity, and red means maturity, energy, strength and life.
The flag of the RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) is the official symbol of the country which was the personification of ‘the state sovereignty of the RSFSR, the voluntary unification of the RSFSR with other equal republics into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the inviolable union of workers, peasants and intelligentsia, friendship and brotherhood of workers of all nations and nationalities of the republic, building a communist society’.
The flag presented itself as a red, rectangular sheet with a gold hammer and sickle and a red five-pointed star in the upper corner. The composition was framed by a golden border. The proportion of the flag’s width to its length is 1:2. The red colour for the flag was not chosen by chance – it symbolized the revolution and the heroic struggle of the Soviet people for the development of socialism and communism. The image of the hammer and sickle signified the unity of the workers’ and peasants’ forces. The letters on the front flag were gold, but in everyday life they were often replaced with yellow ones. The five-pointed star is the personification of the triumph of the ideas of communism on the five inhabited continents of the globe.
The first official symbols of the regions did not differ from the state coat of arms and flag, except that the designations of the autonomy itself were added to them. Since 1954, the inscription “TASSR” was placed on the flag of the Tatar ASSR. After the adoption of the new Constitution in 1978, the inscription was changed to “Tatar ASSR”, and it was written in two lines.
The official flags were used in state institutions of the republic, during festive events and award ceremonies. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the flag of Tatarstan became a rectangular tricolour of green, white and red stripes. The author of the project was Tavil Khaziakhmetov, People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, laureate of G. Tukai State Award.
It is believed that green symbolizes spring and rebirth; white is the colour of purity, and red means maturity, energy, strength and life.
