Coat of arms of the Soviet Union
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Image:State Coat of Arms of the USSR (1958-1991 version) transparent background.png The state coat of arms of the Soviet Union (Russian: Государственный герб СССР) was adopted in 1924 and was used until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Technically speaking, it is a national emblem rather than a coat of arms, since it does not respect heraldic rules. In Russian it is called герб, the word used to translate "coat of arms".
The coat of arms shows the traditional Soviet emblems of the hammer and sickle and the Red Star over a globe, and two wreaths of wheat covered by the USSR State motto ("Workers of the World, Unite!") in the official languages of the Soviet Republics, in the reverse order they were mentioned in the Constitution of the Soviet Union. The version used in 1991 had therefore the state motto in 15 languages, since the removal of the Finnish version with the downgrading of the Karelo-Finnish SSR into a mere ASSR of the Russian SFSR in 1956.
Each Soviet Republic (SSR) and Autonomous Soviet Republic (ASSR) had its own coat of arms, largely inspired by the coat of arms of the Union.
| Coats of Arms of the Soviet Union and Soviet Republics | |
| Image:State Coat of Arms of the USSR (1958-1991 version) transparent background.png | Coat of arms of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Armenian SSR | Azerbaijan SSR | Byelorussian SSR | Estonian SSR | Georgian SSR | Kazakh SSR | Kyrgyz SSR |
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| Arms of short-lived Soviet republics | Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940-1956) | Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936) |
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