Belarus in the Soviet Union (early flags)

Last modified: 2021-10-09 by rob raeside
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• Flags of 1919
• Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR (1919.02.27-1919.08)
• Flag of 1927
• Flag of 1937
• Flag of 1940s

• Belarus in the Soviet Union (1951-1991)
• Soviet Union
• Belarus

Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR (1919.02.27-1919.08)

Also pure red flag was used in early 1919.
Mark Sensen, 05 May 1996

Byelorussia was merged into Lithuanian-Byelorussian SSR on 27 February 1919 and was reestablished in August 1919.
Mark Sensen, 20 September 2000

Flags of 1919

Red with in the upper hoist yellow Cyrillic initials (SSRB) in sans-serif.
Mark Sensen, 17 April 1996

Source: Dunin-Borkovsky K. Album of flags and pennants of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Union Soviet republics and foreign states. - M., 1923.
http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/8743-dunin-borkovskiy-k-albom-flagov-i-vympelov-rossiyskoy-sotsialisticheskoy-federativnoy-sovetskoy-respubliki-soyuznyh-sovetskih-respublik-i-inostrannyh-gosudarstv-m-1923
Valeriy Koba, 24 September 2021

Flag of 1927

image by Valery Koba and Zachary Harden, 29 December 2020

This is the flag of Byelorussian SSR, 1927, according to Constitution.
Valery Koba, 29 December 2020

Flag of 1937

Red with in the upper hoist yellow Cyrillic initials (BSSR) in serif. Red star fimbriated yellow and yellow hammer and sickle above.
Mark Sensen, 25 May 1996

Flag of 1940s

Red with in the upper hoist yellow Cyrillic initials (BSSR) san serif. Yellow border around the canton.
Mark Sensen, 02 June 1996

This flag was replaced by a new one in 1951.
Željko Heimer, 17 April 1996