Flag of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
(Latvia)
	Flag of the Latvian SSR (1953–1990)
Use	Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign
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.
	Reverse flag
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.

History

The first socialist Latvian state, the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic, shown a red flag with the inscription LSPR.

Prior to this, from 25 August 1940, the flag was red with the gold hammer and sickle in the top-left corner, with the Latin characters LPSR (Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika) above them in gold in a serif font.

The Soviet-era flag was officially replaced on 27 February 1990, when the national flag of Latvia was reintroduced. Since 2013, the use of a Latvian SSR flag at public events is banned.^[2]