Emblems of the Autonomous Soviet Republics

The emblems of the autonomous republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is the heraldic symbol of the respective Autonomous Soviet Republic.

Prior to the approval of the Stalinist Constitution, which created many ASSRs, many ASSRs in that time had a distinctive emblem. The emblem of the ASSRs are usually round in shape. The emblem featured predominantly the hammer and sickle and the red star that symbolised communism. The USSR State motto, Workers of the world, unite!, in both the republic's language and some Russian was also placed on each one of them. In addition to those repetitive motifs, emblems of many Soviet republics also included features that were characteristic of their local landscapes, economies or cultures. All ASSRs emblems created during the korenizatsiya era usually included national patterns. The exception to this was the Bashkir ASSR, Crimean ASSR, and Moldavian ASSR, which used the emblem similar to their respective republics. A distinctive emblem was proposed in 1925, but it failed to gain official status.

After the approval of the constitution, many ASSRs changed their emblems according to their respective republic. The emblems of the ASSR were literally the same with their respective republic, with only additions in inscription.

The table below presents versions of the renderings of the ASSRs' emblems prior to the approval of the Stalinist Constitution, as well as the arms of several ASSRs that ceased to exist before that time. For comparison, the arms of present-day successor states of the ASSRs are also shown.

All ASSRs ended the usage of their pre-Stalinist emblems in 1937. This is caused due to the fact that the Stalinist Constitution of the ASSRs were adopted in 1937, about one until three months after the adoption of the Stalinist Constitution of the USSR, which occurred in 5 December 1936.

Pre-Stalinist Emblems of the Autonomous Soviet Republics

  Emblem is similar with the ASSRs' respective republic.

Autonomous Soviet Republic	Emblem	Main Article	Usage	Republic-specific features		Present-day national coat of arms
Adjara		Emblem of the Adjar ASSR	1922-1937	Plants	wheat, grapes	Coat of arms of Adjara
				Landscapes, geographic features	Caucasus Mountains
				Industry
				Ornaments	Star and crescent
Bashkortostan		Emblem of the Bashkir ASSR	1925-1937	Plants	wheat	Coat of arms of Bashkortostan
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Baroque cartouche
Chuvash		Emblem of the Chuvash ASSR	1925-1926	Plants	wheat	Coat of arms of Chuvashia
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry	gear
				Ornaments	Chuvash traditional ornaments
			1926-1927	Plants	wheat, oak, spruce
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Chuvash traditional ornaments
			1927-1931	Plants	wheat, oak, spruce
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Chuvash traditional ornaments
			1931-1938	Plant	wheat, oak, fir
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Chuvash traditional ornaments
Dagestan		Emblem of the Dagestan ASSR	1921-1927	Plants	wheat	Coat of arms of Dagestan
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Baroque cartouche
			1927-1937	Plants	vine, maize, wheat
				Landscapes, geographic features	Mount Bazardüzü
				Industry	gear
				Ornaments
Mordovia		Emblem of the Mordovian ASSR	1934-1937	Plants	wheat, spruce, hemp[1]	Coat of arms of Mordovia
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments
Tatarstan		Emblem of the Tatar ASSR	1920-1926	Plants	wheat, leaves	Coat of arms of Tatarstan
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry	farming tools, peasant, worker
				Ornaments	Bow and arrow
			1926-1937	Plants	wheat
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Baroque cartouche
Volga German		Emblem of the Volga German ASSR	1926-1937	Plants
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments
Yakutia		Emblem of the Yakut ASSR	1926-1937	Plants	wheat[2]	Coat of arms of Yakutia
				Landscapes, geographic features	Lena River, Aurora[3]
				Industry
				Ornaments
Autonomous Republics that dissolved before 1991
Crimea		Emblem of the Crimean ASSR	1921-1938	Plants	wheat	Coat of arms of Crimea
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Baroque cartouche
Kazakhstan		Emblem of the Kazakh ASSR	1925-1927	Plants	wheat	Emblem of Kazakhstan
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Baroque cartouche
			1927-1937	Plants	wheat, cotton
				Landscapes, geographic features	goats, horses, horsemen
				Industry	Factory
				Ornaments	Star and crescent
Kyrgyzstan		Emblem of the Kirghiz ASSR	1927-1936	Plants	wheat
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments
Moldova		Emblem of the Moldavian ASSR	1925-1929	Plants	maize, grapes[4]	Coat of arms of Moldova
				Landscapes, geographic features	Dniester River, Map of Moldavian ASSR[5]
				Industry
				Ornaments
			1929-1938	Plants	wheat[6]
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Baroque cartouche[7]
Tajikistan		Emblem of the Tajik ASSR	1924-1929	Plants	wheat, cotton	Emblem of Tajikistan
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments
			1929-1931	Plants	wheat, cotton
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments
Turkestan		Emblem of the Turkestan ASSR		Plants	wheat
				Landscapes, geographic features
				Industry
				Ornaments	Baroque cartouche

Proposed Emblems

Autonomous Soviet Republic	Emblem	Proposed in	Republic-specific features		Present-day national coat of arms
Bashkortostan		1925	Plants	wheat, maize	Coat of arms of Bashkortostan
			Landscapes, geographic features	Mount Yamantau
			Industry	Factories, cities
			Ornaments
			Others	Salawat Yulayev
Chechen-Ingushetia		unknown (probably 1970s)	Animals	cranes	Coat of arms of Chechnya
			Landscapes, geographic features
			Industry		Coat of arms of Ingushetia
			Ornaments	flag of the Russian SFSR
Dagestan		1926	Plants		Coat of arms of Dagestan
			Landscapes, geographic features	Mount Bazardüzü
			Industry
			Ornaments

References

Citations

1. О государственном гербе и флаге.
2. Central State Archive of the Yakut ASSR 1972, p. 358
3. Central State Archive of the Yakut ASSR 1972, p. 358
4. Andrieş-Tabac 1998, p. 116-119
5. Andrieş-Tabac 1998, p. 116-119
6. Andrieş-Tabac 1998, p. 116-119
7. Andrieş-Tabac 1998, p. 116-119

Bibliography

• Central State Archive of the Yakut ASSR (1972), "Всеякутские съезды Советов : документы и материалы. 1922-1937" [All-Yakut Congresses of the Soviets : documents and materials. 1922-1937], e.nlrs.ru (in Russian), Yakutsk: Yakutsk Book Publishing, retrieved November 11, 2018
• Andrieş-Tabac, Silviu (1998), Heraldica teritorială a Basarabiei şi Transnistriei [Territorial heraldry of Bessarabia and Transnistria] (in Romanian), Chişinău: Museum

See also

• Emblems of the Soviet Republics
• Coats of arms of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics
• List of coats of arms of the Russian Federation