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{{Infobox Coat of arms
|name             = Coat of arms of Transnistria
|image            = Coat of arms of Transnistria.svg
|image_width      = 200
|middle           = Coat of arms of Transnistria (variant).svg
|middle_width     = 150
|middle_caption   = version with initials
|lesser           =
|lesser_width     =
|lesser_caption   =
|armiger          = [[Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic]]
|year_adopted     = 1991
|crest            =
|torse            =
|shield           = Soviet-style emblem with a [[hammer and sickle]]
|supporters       = Stalks of [[wheat]], [[Maize|corn]], [[grape]] and [[clover]] surround the emblem
|compartment      =
|motto            = '''Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ''' <br><br> '''Приднестровская Молдавская Республика''' <br><br> '''Придністровська Молдавська Республіка'''
|orders           =
|other_elements   = [[Red star]], [[sunrise|rising sun]]
|earlier_versions = 
|use              =
}}
[[File:Emblem of the Moldavian SSR.svg|thumb|200px|right|The national emblem of the [[Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic]] was remodeled to make the Transnistrian emblem]]
[[File:Flag of Transnistria Republic.jpg|thumb|right|[[Flag of Transnistria|Civil flag of Transnistria]] superimposed with a version of the national emblem]]

The '''coat of arms of [[Transnistria]]''' constitutes a remodeled version of the [[emblem of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic|former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic emblem]], as substituted by the internationally recognized [[Moldova]]n government after the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991. The only major pictorial change made in the Transnistrian device involved the addition of waves, representing the River [[Dniester]]. But the inscription on the red banner changed: unlike the Moldavian SSR emblem, which bore the acronym "РССМ" (for "Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic") and the USSR state slogan "[[Workers of the world, unite!]]" in the Russian and Moldavian languages, the Transnistrian emblem bears the name "Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic" in the [[Moldovan language|Moldovan]], [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[Ukrainian language]]s. In Moldavian, it reads "''Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ''" (transliterated: "''Republica Moldoveneascǎ Nistreanǎ''"); in Russian, it reads "''Приднестровская Молдавская Республика''" (transliterated: "''Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika''"); and, in Ukrainian, it reads "''Придністровська Молдавська Республіка''" (transliterated: "''Prydnistrovśka Moldavśka Respublika''"). Despite the emblem's depiction of the Hammer and Sickle, [[Transnistria]] is not a [[Socialist State]].

==See also==
* [[Flag of Transnistria]]
* [[Coat of arms of Tiraspol]]
* [[Coat of arms of Gagauzia]]

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091130024336/http://pridnestrovie.net/pmr-coatofarms.html Coat of arms of Pridnestrovie]

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