Flag of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic ССР, "Oʻzbekiston SSR") and Russian (Узбекская ССР, "Uzbekskaya SSR") languages in gold in the top-left corner. The last Uzbek SSR was adopted on 29 August 1952. Although the flag is visually identical to the Soviet flag, the red panel has a light blue (azure) down the middle of the whole flag length. At the edges of the light blue stripes are narrow white. The blue stripe with white edges is 1/5 (one-fifth) of the flag width. The specification amendments were accepted on 27 September 1974 and 30 June 1981. On 31 August 1991, the Uzbek SSR was renamed to the
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