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Flag of the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Flag of the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The flag the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted in 1954 by the government of the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The flag is identical to the flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. On June 21, 1937, the Extraordinary 11th Congress of Soviets of the Mari ASSR adopted the Constitution of the Republic, which was approved by the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on June 2, 1940. The flag of the republic according to the Article 112 of the constitution was a red cloth with golden inscriptions: "РСФСР" and