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Lasmanis, 20 April 2021
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In 1940, a rebellion broke out in the
Chechno-Ingushetian Republic and established contacts with the advancing
German army. For that, Chechens and Ingush
were subjected to mass deportations starting in 1944.
Jaume Ollé, 26 Feb 2000
A book SSSR — Administrativno-territorialhnoe Delenie Soûznyq Respublik, of 1980, lists the following chronology for Chechnya and Ingushetia:
Both Chechen and Ingush peoples were deported at the same time
(February 1944). Chechen-Ingush ASSR was then suppressed, even part of
its territory was ceded to Georgia. In 1957
Chechen-Ingush ASSR was restored (along with Kalmyk
ASSR, Kabardino-Balkar ASSR and Karachai
AR). Flags attributed to these entities between 1944 and 1957 are,
certainly, due to an error.
Antonio Gutiérrez, 29 Jun 1999
According to Theodore Shabad’s Geography of the USSR (New York, 1951) pp. 228-230:
Groznyy Oblast was formed in 1944 on the site of the former Chechen-Ingush Autonomous SSR and includes the territory of the former Kizlyar Okrug, which was originally part of the Dagestan Autonomous SSR and from 1938 until 1944 in Ordzhonikidze Kray…
The territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous SSR was distributed in 1944; the southern mountain strip passed to the Georgian SSR, the westernmost section to the North Ossetian Autonomous SSR, an eastern zone to the Dagestan Autonomous SSR, while the bulk of the territory made up part of the newly constituted Groznyy Oblast.
Jarig Bakker, 27 Jun 1999
This "newly constituted Groznyy Oblast" is just the former
Chechen-Ingush ASSR under a new name (and “downgraded” to
the non-ethnic category of oblasth).
The key phrase here is "the bulk of the territory", all the
rest are probably minor borderline rearrangements, and not a
"dismembering" of this unit (although I’m
surprised that territory was interchanged from one SSR to another).
(Naturally, my 1980 Soviet handbook about territorial divisions
ignores all this.)
António Martins, 29 Jun 1999
image by Janis
Lasmanis, 20 April 2021
Russian script introduced in 1938. Vexillographia.ru says (in text) that Russian was the
1st. Also the constitution of ASSR of 1937 said that Russian was the 1st. place.
It seems that after 1937 it was required for all ASSRs that Russian text is
above.
Text of 1937 constitution -
http://kavkaznasledie.ru/archives/263
Ben Cahoon, 1 April 2021
May be the flag of 1937 without hammer and sickle also existed. I think so. But
nobody saw it in reality.
Probably the 1937 flag had the inscriptions in 3
languages, not in 3 lines but in 2 because postage stamps of that period had the
name of the republic in 2 lines: Russian and generic Chechenian/Ingushetian
lang.
For example - post stamp 1960 -
https://stamps.ru/sites/default/files/checheno-ingush_0.png
All we
know about Soviet flag of Dagestan: 11 languages according the Constitution, but
only one abbreviation "DASSP" in fact. I think the Chech.-Ing. Flag of 1937
(1938) was made according that model too.
Victor Lomantsov, 6 April
2021
The Chechen text was not Noxč-Ghalghajn. Please see Chechen newspaper of 1926
with “Noxč” (not Nohč) [see
Chechen newspaper image].
Janis Lasmanis, 20 April 2021
image by Janis
Lasmanis, 1 April 2021
Janis' best guess on the basis of text of the ASSR constitution of 1937.
Ben Cahoon, 1 April 2021
I understand that Mr. Lomantsov accepts this at least as possible flag. The
postal stamp dates from 1960 and even though there is just Chechen on the lower
part of stamp, the arms on the same stamp have 3 languages.
Janis
Lasmanis, 20 April 2021
image by Janis
Lasmanis, 1 April 2021
The Russian text is in the 1st position. Vexillographia.ru says (in text) that
Russian was the 1st. (He was wondering why some drawings on Vexillographia
differ from the quoted text of constitutions.)
Ben Cahoon, 1 April
2021
The flag of Checheno-Ingush ASSR 1957 is well known according images in
Flag-Albums, postcards etc. The Russian abbreviation is always placed in the
second row.
The constitution said there are inscriptions in Russian,
Chechenian and Ingushian languages, but nothing about the order of the
inscriptions.
For example:
https://filinfo.ru/images/photo/18552_1454671278_0_p.jpg
https://hobby-group.ru/sites/default/files/IMG_20200609_0051-min.jpg
https://b.itemimg.com/i/206668816.2.jpg
Victor Lomantsov, 6
April 2021
Concerning the dates, the Republic was re-founded in 1957 and the Constitution
of 1937 was revived with the old flag of 1937.
Changes to the article 112
(about symbols) of the Constitution were made on 16 April 1958 (at the 1st
session of new-formed Supreme Council). On May 21, 1958 the Regulation about the
new flag was adopted.
Correct date of the adoption - 16 April 1958.
Victor Lomantsov, 6 April 2021
For the flag in 1957 – I would rather keep 1957-58 blank, because even though
the constitution of 1937 was restored, I doubt that old flag (not in line with
new flag of RSFSR) could be used. The suggestion that they used the RSFSR flag
of that time might be correct, even if the constitution specified the older ASSR
flag. It would be nice to know. It is unfortunate there are no details.
Janis Lasmanis, 20 April 2021
image by Janis
Lasmanis, 1 April 2021
This was the last flag of the ASSR.
Ben Cahoon, 1 April 2021
