| | Flag of Byelorussian SSR -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | This flag was adopted by the (additional info and facts about Byelorussian SSR) Byelorussian SSR on December 25, 1951. |
 | | Prior to this, the flag was red with the (An alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages) Cyrillic characters БССР (BSSR) in gold in the top-left corner, surrounded by a gold border. |
 | | Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag in the (The decade from 1940 to 1949) 1940s, the flag was the same, but with a gold (The emblem on the flag of the Soviet Union) hammer and sickle above the Cyrillic characters and no border. |
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