The Museum of the History of Tatar Statehood and the Republic of Tatarstan keeps a copy of the coat of arms of the Tatar ASSR of 1978.
The official coat of arms of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was approved in 1930. It replicated the coat of arms of the RSFSR, but was supplemented with the inscription ‘Tatar ASSR’ and the Tatar text of the motto in Latin graphics. This version of the emblem is also represented at the exhibit of the museum.
The Coat of Arms was an image of hammer and sickle on a red background in the rays of the sun — the tools symbolized the unity of workers and peasants. The golden heads of wheat served as a frame for the shield. On the emblem of the republic the inscriptions ‘RSFSR’ and ‘Workers of all countries, unite! ’ were in Russian and Tatar languages, as well as the abbreviation ‘Tatarstan ASSR’.
In 1978, changes were made to the state Coat of Arms — a red five-pointed star was added to it. In this regard, the design of the Coat of Arms of the Republic was also changed: the image of a star with a golden border was placed in the upper part and the inscriptions in the Latin alphabet were removed — instead, the motto in Tatar was written in Cyrillic letters below the motto in Russian.
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. At the top of the Coat of Arms was a five-pointed star — a symbol of the ultimate triumph of the ideas of communism on the five inhabited continents of the globe.
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.
The official coat of arms of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was approved in 1930. It replicated the coat of arms of the RSFSR, but was supplemented with the inscription ‘Tatar ASSR’ and the Tatar text of the motto in Latin graphics. This version of the emblem is also represented at the exhibit of the museum.
The Coat of Arms was an image of hammer and sickle on a red background in the rays of the sun — the tools symbolized the unity of workers and peasants. The golden heads of wheat served as a frame for the shield. On the emblem of the republic the inscriptions ‘RSFSR’ and ‘Workers of all countries, unite! ’ were in Russian and Tatar languages, as well as the abbreviation ‘Tatarstan ASSR’.
In 1978, changes were made to the state Coat of Arms — a red five-pointed star was added to it. In this regard, the design of the Coat of Arms of the Republic was also changed: the image of a star with a golden border was placed in the upper part and the inscriptions in the Latin alphabet were removed — instead, the motto in Tatar was written in Cyrillic letters below the motto in Russian.
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. At the top of the Coat of Arms was a five-pointed star — a symbol of the ultimate triumph of the ideas of communism on the five inhabited continents of the globe.
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.
