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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has used various flags throughout its 7-decade. history. Listed in this article are flags — state, Republic, military, and organizational flags. — used between the time of the Revolution and Civil War time period (1917-1924), Soviet period (1922–1991) and to present day Soviet-derived flags (1922–present day).

Flags of the Soviet Union

State flag

Date	Use	Description
1922-1923	State flag	"The red banner was transformed from the symbol of the Party to the symbol of a state, and around that flag gathered the peoples of the soviet republics to unite into one state — the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". - December, 1922, First Congress of Soviets of the USSR. Officially defined in 1924 constitution, never mass-produced.^[1]
1923-1924
1924-1936		"The state flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consists of a red or scarlet field, and in the canton a golden sickle and hammer, and a red five-pointed star bordered in gold above them. The ratio of width to length is 1:2."
1936-1955		Used by Anti-Revisionists, Stalinists, and Maoists.
1955-1991		On 19 August 1955, the Statute on the State Flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was adopted by a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. This resulted in a change of the hammer's handle length and the shape of the sickle.^[1]

Presidential flag

Standard	Date	Use	Description
	1964-1992	Flag of the President as the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR^[2]	Office established in 1990; Flag used from 1964

Military flags

Flags of service branches

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	????-1991	Flag of Red Army Divisions (Obverse)
	????-1991	Flag of Red Army Divisions (Reverse)
	2000–present	Flag of the Navy
	2015–present	Flag of the Aerospace Forces
	2004–present	Flag of the Airborne Forces

Victory Flag

The Victory Flag was a Flag raised atop of the Reichstag in Berlin, by the Red Army, on the first of May, 1945.

Banner	Date	Use	Description
	1996–2007	Symbol of Victory Flag	The Symbol of Victory Banner was an alternative to using the historic Victory Banner, which contained the hammer and sickle.
	2007–	Flag of Victory	The Banner of Victory raised on the Reichstag in 1945. Replicas of the Victory Banner can be used alongside the national flag on Victory Day.

Proposed flags

Submitted	Planned use	Description
1948, 1949	State flag of the Russian SFSR	A proposal for the state flag of the RSFSR was created by artist Alexey Kokorekin [ru]. It added white and blue horizontal stripes at the bottom, both two stripes took 1⁄6 of the flag's height.
c. 1949	State flag of the Russian SFSR	Another proposal with the traditional Russian tricolour at the bottom.
c. 1950	State flag of the Russian SFSR	Another proposal for the state flag of the RSFSR was created by Mikhail Rodionov. It consisted of a traditional tricolour flag and a hammer and a sickle in the middle of the flag. Because of his proposal, he was accused of anti-Sovietism in 1950, at the Leningrad affair case.^[3]
2022	State flag of the Russian Federation	On April 19, the CPRF proposed to the State Duma the adoption of the Soviet flag as the official flag of Russia.^[4]