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{{Infobox flag
| Name        = Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic<br><small>(Kazakhstan)</small>
| Article     = the
| Image       = Flag of the Kazakh SSR.svg
| Nickname    = 
| Use         = 110110
| Symbol      = {{FIAV|historical}}
| Proportion  = 1:2
| Adoption    = 24 January 1953
| Design      = A red flag with a blue stripe (two-ninths) and a golden [[hammer and sickle]] and a gold-bordered [[red star]] in its upper canton.
| Designer    =
| Type        =
| Imagetext2  = Reverse side of the flag after 1980.
| Image2      = Flag of the Kazakh SSR (reverse).svg
| Nickname2   = 
| Use2        = Reverse flag
| Symbol2     = 
| Proportion2 = 1:2
| Adoption2   = 
| Design2     =
| Designer2   = 
}}

The '''flag of the [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]]''' was adopted by the Kazakh government on 24 January 1953. This flag resembles the [[flag of the Soviet Union]] in a defaced form but with the three horizontal stripes consisted of the 2/9 (two-ninths) of the blue (azure) bar in lower part of flag and the [[hammer and sickle]] in the near centre.<ref>[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/su-kz.html Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union - CRW Flags]</ref>

==History==
Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag in 1940, the flag was red with a gold hammer and sickle in the top-left corner, with the [[Latin alphabet|Latin]] characters ''QAZAQ SSR'' and the [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] characters ''КАЗАХСКАЯ ССР'' (''KAZAKHSKAYA SSR'') in gold in a sans-serif font beneath the hammer and sickle.

The second flag was red with the gold [[hammer and sickle]] in the top-left corner, with the [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] characters ''Казак ССР'' (''Kazak SSR'') and ''Казахская ССР'' (''Kazakhskaya SSR'') in gold to the right of the hammer and sickle was adopted on 10 November 1940 which adopted a law on the transfer of Kazakh writing in Russian alphabet charts, modified accordingly and the inscription on the emblem.<ref name=QKSRFlag>[http://www.vexillographia.ru/kazakhst/index.htm Флаги Советского Казахстана]</ref>

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On 24 January 1953, the new flag of the Kazakh SSR was approved by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR. It was the [[flag of the Soviet Union]]; with the blue horizontal stripe at the bottom of the cloth. The width of the blue band is equal to 2/9 of the flag width, and the distance to it from the lower edge of the flag, 1/9 of the flag's width.<ref name=QKSRFlag />

The regulations of the state flag of the Kazakh SSR was approved on 28 August 1981. It specified the proportions of the hammer and sickle and red star: the hammer and sickle are within a square side of the flag's width to 1/4 the length of the hammer handle - 3/4 of the diagonal of the square, the star fits into the diameter of a circle 1/8 of the flag width, distance of the vertical axis stars from the flagpole - 1/4 of the flag's width, the distance from the top edge to the center of the star - 1/8 of the flag's width.<ref name=QKSRFlag />

The flag remained in use as the first flag of Kazakhstan until the [[Flag of Kazakhstan|new one]] was adopted on 4 June 1992.

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==See also==
* [[Flag of the Soviet Union]]
* [[Coat of arms of the Kazakh SSR]]
* [[Flag of Kazakhstan]]

==References==
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[[Category:Flags of Kazakhstan|Soviet Socialist Republic]]
[[Category:Flags of the Soviet Union|Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]]
[[Category:Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]]
[[Category:National symbols of Kazakhstan]]
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[[de:Flagge Kasachstans#Geschichte]]