Coat of arms of the Tatar ASSR (Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). 1937. The red sheet is supplemented with inscriptions in the Latin script.
In 1920, Vladimir Lenin met with representatives of Tatarstan to discuss the formation of a separate republic. As a result, the Autonomous Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic (ATSSR) appeared. In 1937, the Congress of Soviets approved the text of the first constitution of the region and changed the places of the words in the name, and it became the Tatar ASSR.
On October 4, 1937, the Presidium of the Central Executive Commission of the TASSR adopted a resolution on the State Coat of Arms of the TASSR. It replicated the flag of the RSFSR and consisted of ‘the image of a golden hammer and sickle placed crosswise with handles downwards on a red background in the rays of the sun and framed by heads with the inscription “RSFSR” and “Workers of all countries, unite” in Russian and Tatar languages, with adding the inscription “Tatar ASSR” in smaller letters in Russian and Tatar languages under inscription “RSFSR”.
The coat of arms was completed by inscriptions in the Tatar language which were written in Latin letters. For example, “R.S.F.S.R.”, “TATARSTAN A.S.S.R.”, “BARLЬQ ILLЂRNEN PROLЕТАRILARЬ, BERLЂŞEGEZ!”. This is due to the fact that in 1928 in the TASSR, as in many other Turkic-speaking autonomous republics, the Tatar language was officially translated into an alphabet based on the Latin alphabet (Yanalif), instead of the Arabic alphabet. Until 1939, all official paperwork in the Tatar language was carried out using the Latin alphabet.
The Museum of the History of Tatar Statehood and the Republic of Tatarstan keeps a copy of the flag of the Tatar ASSR of the 1937 model.
The motto “Workers of all countries, unite”, which became the state one in Soviet Russia, was invented by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. They said these words for the first time in 1847 at the London Congress of the Union of Communists. Each element of the coat of arms had a meaning: the hammer and sickle symbolized the indestructible alliance of workers and peasants, red – revolution, creative beginning and struggle, and the sun – the noble goal of building communism. The wreath of wheat denoted peaceful creative work and the well-being of the region, and the motto meant loyalty to the Marxism.
Researchers believe that “the hammer and sickle” emblem was created by the artist Evgeny Kamzolkin in 1918 during the design of the May Day holiday. There is another version that the author of the hammer and sickle is Lev Rudnev, the architect of the monument to the fighters of the revolution in St. Petersburg.
In 1920, Vladimir Lenin met with representatives of Tatarstan to discuss the formation of a separate republic. As a result, the Autonomous Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic (ATSSR) appeared. In 1937, the Congress of Soviets approved the text of the first constitution of the region and changed the places of the words in the name, and it became the Tatar ASSR.
On October 4, 1937, the Presidium of the Central Executive Commission of the TASSR adopted a resolution on the State Coat of Arms of the TASSR. It replicated the flag of the RSFSR and consisted of ‘the image of a golden hammer and sickle placed crosswise with handles downwards on a red background in the rays of the sun and framed by heads with the inscription “RSFSR” and “Workers of all countries, unite” in Russian and Tatar languages, with adding the inscription “Tatar ASSR” in smaller letters in Russian and Tatar languages under inscription “RSFSR”.
The coat of arms was completed by inscriptions in the Tatar language which were written in Latin letters. For example, “R.S.F.S.R.”, “TATARSTAN A.S.S.R.”, “BARLЬQ ILLЂRNEN PROLЕТАRILARЬ, BERLЂŞEGEZ!”. This is due to the fact that in 1928 in the TASSR, as in many other Turkic-speaking autonomous republics, the Tatar language was officially translated into an alphabet based on the Latin alphabet (Yanalif), instead of the Arabic alphabet. Until 1939, all official paperwork in the Tatar language was carried out using the Latin alphabet.
The Museum of the History of Tatar Statehood and the Republic of Tatarstan keeps a copy of the flag of the Tatar ASSR of the 1937 model.
The motto “Workers of all countries, unite”, which became the state one in Soviet Russia, was invented by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. They said these words for the first time in 1847 at the London Congress of the Union of Communists. Each element of the coat of arms had a meaning: the hammer and sickle symbolized the indestructible alliance of workers and peasants, red – revolution, creative beginning and struggle, and the sun – the noble goal of building communism. The wreath of wheat denoted peaceful creative work and the well-being of the region, and the motto meant loyalty to the Marxism.
Researchers believe that “the hammer and sickle” emblem was created by the artist Evgeny Kamzolkin in 1918 during the design of the May Day holiday. There is another version that the author of the hammer and sickle is Lev Rudnev, the architect of the monument to the fighters of the revolution in St. Petersburg.
