File:Map-Flag of the Soviet Union.svg

Original file (SVG file, nominally 1,098 × 756 pixels, file size: 55 KB)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

DescriptionMap-Flag of the Soviet Union.svg	English: An outline of the , with the flag of the Soviet Union within it.
Date	July 2009
Source	File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg File:Commonwealth of Independent States.svg
Author	NuclearVacuum
Other versions	Flag-map of the Soviet Union (1922-1939) Flag-map of the Soviet Union (1939-1941) Flag-map of the Soviet Union (1945-1955)
SVG development InfoField	The SVG code is valid. This vector image was created with Inkscape.

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:

This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

You are free:

to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

You may select the license of your choice.

Legal disclaimer
This image contains a symbol prohibited by law in some nations, owing to it being a representation of communism, socialism, or a similar governmental structure; or of an associated political party/organization:

Georgia's parliament: On Amending the Law of Georgia "Charter of Liberty", No. 1867, 2013
Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly: UU No. 27/1999
Latvia's Saeima: Amendments to the Law on the Safety of Public Entertainment and Festivity Events (OP 2013/129.4). Ban only applies at public events.
Lithuania's Constitutional Court confirms Article 188¹⁸ of the Code of Administrative Offences. Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.
South Korea's National Security Act (prohibited for symbols or emblems related to North Korea)
Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (article 436-1 of the Criminal code of Ukraine)

Imagery covered may include the hammer and sickle^en, red star, emblems/insignias, flags or images of leaders.

العربية ∙ беларуская ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ Esperanto ∙ español ∙ euskara ∙ suomi ∙ français ∙ Gàidhlig ∙ galego ∙ हिन्दी ∙ magyar ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ қазақша ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ norsk bokmål ∙ Nederlands ∙ norsk ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ română ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ српски / srpski ∙ svenska ∙ ไทย ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ Tiếng Việt ∙ 中文 ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ 中文（繁體） ∙ +/−

Legal disclaimer
This image shows (or resembles) a symbol used by the Russian Federation and its Armed Forces, an organization closely associated to it, or another party advocating or glorifying wars of aggression or aggressive conduct.

The use of these insignias may be prohibited by law in the Czech Republic, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Ukraine and other countries, depending on context.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:20, 27 January 2024	1,098 × 756 (55 KB)	Colohisto	Updated emblem
	04:53, 16 October 2017	1,098 × 756 (56 KB)	Sammimack	Updated the Hammer and Sickle to accurately reflect that used on the flag of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1991.
	00:49, 13 January 2011	1,098 × 756 (56 KB)	Fry1989	accurate map, borders are gone
	00:31, 13 January 2011	1,115 × 764 (64 KB)	NuclearVacuum	Reverted to version as of 01:52, 26 December 2010
	20:13, 10 January 2011	1,099 × 756 (78 KB)	Fry1989	Reverted to version as of 06:10, 11 December 2010 accurate map
	01:52, 26 December 2010	1,115 × 764 (64 KB)	NuclearVacuum	there is no need for the borders
	01:35, 26 December 2010	1,345 × 920 (49 KB)	NuclearVacuum	Reverted to version as of 20:12, 18 July 2009
	06:10, 11 December 2010	1,099 × 756 (78 KB)	Fry1989	smaller
	06:08, 11 December 2010	1,099 × 757 (78 KB)	Fry1989	small gold border
	21:02, 10 December 2010	1,099 × 757 (69 KB)	Fry1989	better