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Flag of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

flags of the 1920-1990 Russian administrative division

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ130271320 ↗
Source-derived summary

The flag of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted in 1920 and changed several times until 1991 when it ceased being used after the collapse of the Tatar ASSR. The flag's design used a similar layout to the Russian SFSR. It featured a light blue stripe to the left and a red background with a hammer and sickle located on the top left along with the words Tatar ASSR in Russian.

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“Flag of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic” enters the record as flags of the 1920-1990 Russian administrative division. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Flag, Tatar and Autonomous can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Flag, Tatar and Autonomous.
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“Flag of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Flag, Tatar and Autonomous provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Flag of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.