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Use | Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Proportion | 1:2 |
Adopted | 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. |
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Use | Reverse flag ![]() ![]() |
Proportion | 1:2 |
The flag of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted by the Kazakh government on 24 January 1953. The flag resembles the flag of the Soviet Union in defaced form with a 2/9 horizontal blue (azure) bar in the lower part of the flag and the hammer and sickle in the near centre.[1]