Coat of arms of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic

Coat of arms of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
Details
Armiger	Government of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
Adopted	March 2, 1937
Escutcheon	Baroque shield with hammer and sickle
Supporters	Stalks of wheat, cotton and grape
Motto	Әxли юртлариң пролетарлары, бирлешиң! Workers of the world, unite!
Other elements	Red star, rising sun, oil derrick, pipeline, Turkmen rug
Earlier versions

The coat of arms of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on March 2, 1937 by the government of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. The coat of arms is based on the coat of arms of the Soviet Union. It shows symbols of agriculture (cotton, wheat and grapes) and heavy industry (oil derrick and pipeline), as well as a symbol of the Turkmen people, a rug. The rising Sun stands for the future of the Turkmen nation, the red star as well as the hammer and sickle for the victory of Communism and the "world-wide socialist community of states".

The banner bears the Soviet Union state motto ("Workers of the world, unite!") in both the Russian and Turkmen languages. In Turkmen, it is "Әxли юртлариң пролетарлары, бирлешиң!" (in the current Turkmen Latin script: "Ähli ýurtlaryň proletarlary, birleşiň!").

Later version of the coat of arms had acronym "TSSR" between red star, above, and hammer and sickle, below.^[1]

The emblem was changed in 1992 to the present coat of arms of Turkmenistan.

References

1. ^ Compare, e.g., Herzog H.-U., Wolf F. Flaggen und Wappen. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographisches Institut, 1967 — S. 93 and Атлас СССР. М.: ГУГК при СМ СССР, 1988 — ненумерованные страницы после стр. 16