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This flag was published in 1925 in Album of flags and pennants
of USSR [urs25]. Officially it was
an «ensign for water-rescuing ships and flag for water-rescuing institutions».
This flag was not a flag for Society of Red Cross and Red Crescent
— founded in 1925 too.
Victor Lomantsov, 16 Apr 2000
This one must surely be related with a similar
previous Russian flag
of the same purpose, that replaced the four letter
"CCCP" in each end of the cross with crown…
Zeljko Heimer
Heimer, 18 Jun 2000
Later (in magazines of 1970ths) I saw analogous flag for rescuing-ships
but with USSR-flag in canton. I don’t know details of adoption…
Victor Lomantsov, 16 Apr 2000
Societies of Water Salvation, in Russia, Belorussia and other
republics of USSR, had their own flags: the Society of Water Salvation
of RSFSR had light-blue flag with small RSFSR-flag
in canton and emblem in the centre. Emblem: red cross, two crossed
blue anchors inside white-orange life-buoy with inscriptions: "OSVOD"
(orange letters on white half of life-buoy) and "RSFSR" (white letters on
orange half). This flag described in the Statutes of 1970.
Victor Lomantsov, 16 Apr 2000
