Use | Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign |
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Proportion | 1:2 |
Adopted | 17 January 1953 |
Design | A plain red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and a gold-bordered red star in its upper canton with the blue and white rippling water at the bottom. |
Use | Reverse flag |
Proportion | 1:2 |
Design | A red field with a blue-white wave pattern on the bottom. |
The flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic shows a yellow hammer and sickle and outlined star on a red field above rippling water at the bottom,[1] and was adopted by the (former) Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic on January 17, 1953.