World Abaza Congress

The national flag of Abkhazia is a panel with seven alternating stripes of green and white colors along its length: four green and three white. The first bar on top is green. In the upper left corner, at the flagpole, there is a purple rectangle. In the center of the rectangle is a vertical image of the open palm of the human right hand, white. There are seven five-pointed stars above the palm in a semicircle - also white.

According to the first constitution of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia in 1925, the flag of the republic consisted of a red or scarlet cloth with an image in its upper corner, at the shaft, golden sickle and hammer. Above them was placed a red five-pointed star, framed by a gold border, and below are four letters "SSRA" (Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia - ed.)

The green color of the Abkhaz coat of arms symbolizes youth and life, white - spirituality. The big eight-pointed star of golden color at the bottom is a sign of rebirth. Two other stars in the upper part, on a white and green background, symbolize the unity of two cultural worlds - East and West.

The State Emblem of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia was a depiction of the golden sickle and hammer and the inscription "SSR Apsny" against the backdrop of a mountain landscape.

The coat of arms was framed by an ornament in the form of a wreath of corn, tobacco and grapes, tied with a red border. Above it was placed a red five-pointed star in the rays of the sun. On the red border there is an inscription in the Abkhaz language: "Апролетарцәа атәылақуа зегьы рҽы иҟоу, шәҽеидышәкыл!" - "Proletarians of all countries, unite!"

Since 1926, the inscription "SSR Apsny" was transferred from the central image to the circular red border and duplicated in the Russian and Georgian languages.

With the proclamation of independence of Abkhazia in 1992, the national anthem of the republic was approved. The basis of the anthem was the initial motive and words of the Abkhaz revolutionary song of the "Kiaraz" squad.

At the end of 1917, a gathering of peasants of the Gudauta sector was convened in the village of Dzhirkhua, where they decided to create an armed peasant squad "Kiaraz". It was headed by a young Bolshevik, Gudauta district commissioner Nestor Lakoba, later - a prominent statesman of Soviet Abkhazia and chairman of the Council of People's Commissars.

During the occupation of Abkhazia by the troops of the Georgian Democratic Republic, the struggle of "Kiaraz" for the establishment of Soviet power in the republic was identified by the population with the restoration of Abkhaz statehood. In this connection, "Kiaraz" has become a symbol of the liberation movement of the Abkhaz people.