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  2. Road signs in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The shapes and colors of road signs in the Soviet Union, and now in all post-Soviet states, fully comply with the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, to which the Soviet Union was originally a signatory. On 8 November 1968, the Soviet Union signed the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals, and on 7 June 1974 ratified it with ...

  3. Traffic signs in post-Soviet states - Wikipedia

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    Trilingual road signs in Abkhazia, a partially recognised state.Inscriptions are in Abkhaz, Russian and English. There may be variations in the post-Soviet states' road signs despite the fact that many of them adopted the road sign system used in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in 1991.

  4. Road signs in Russia - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals was issued in all 6 official languages of the United Nations, including Russian, due to the fact that the Russian Federation (until December 1991 the Soviet Union) is a permanent member of the UN Security Council. New rules of the road, as well as road signs adopted by this convention ...

  5. Flag of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The first official flag was adopted in December 1922 at the First Congress of Soviets of the USSR. It was agreed that the red banner "was transformed from the symbol of the Party to the symbol of a state, and around that flag gathered the peoples of the soviet republics to unite into one state — the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics".

  6. Traffic signs by country - Wikipedia

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    Road signs in Uzbekistan are very similar in design to those used in the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991, as the country was a Soviet Socialist Republic until 1991, when it declared its independence from the Soviet Union. [26] Modern road signs in Uzbekistan on the one hand follow modern road signs used in Russia from the GOST R ...

  7. Emblems of the Soviet Republics - Wikipedia

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    USSR republics coat of arms display on USSR State Television.. The emblems of the constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics all featured predominantly the hammer and sickle and the red star that symbolized communism, as well as a rising sun (although in the case of the Latvian SSR, since the Baltic Sea is west of Latvia, it could be interpreted as a setting sun ...

  8. Hammer and sickle - Wikipedia

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    The State Emblem of the Soviet Union and the Coats of Arms of the Soviet Republics showed the hammer and sickle, which also appeared on the red star badge on the uniform cap of the Red Army uniform and in many other places. Serp i Molot (transliteration of Russian: cерп и молот, "sickle and hammer") is the name of the Moscow ...

  9. Road signs in Lithuania - Wikipedia

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    In 1940, after the Soviet Union occupied and subsequently annexed Lithuania, the Soviet road traffic rules and road signs, which had been in force in the Soviet Union since 1936, were adopted in Lithuania. [4] On January 1, 1980, the standard GOST 10807-78 was adopted in the Soviet Union, including the territory of present-day Lithuania.