Coat of arms of Transnistria

The coat of arms of Transnistria constitutes a remodeled version of the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic emblem, as substituted by the internationally recognized Moldovan government after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The only major pictorial change made in the Transnistrian version involves the addition of waves, representing the River Dniester. However, the inscriptions on the banner were changed: unlike the Moldavian SSR emblem, which bore the acronym РССМ (for "Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic") and the USSR state slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" in the Russian and Moldavian languages, the Transnistrian emblem bears the name Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the Moldovan, Russian and Ukrainian languages. In Moldavian, it reads "Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ" (transliterated: "Republica Moldoveneascǎ Nistreanǎ"); in Russian, it reads "Приднестровская Молдавская Республика" (transliterated: "Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika"); and, in Ukrainian, it reads "Придністровська Молдавська Республіка" (transliterated: "Prydnistrovs'ka Moldavs'ka Respublika"). Despite the emblem's depiction of the hammer and sickle, Transnistria is not a socialist state.

Coat of arms of Transnistria
Versions
version with initials
ArmigerPridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
Adopted1991
MottoMoldovan Cyrillic: Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ
Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская Республика
Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська Республіка
Other elementsRed star, rising sun
The national emblem of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was remodeled to make the Transnistrian emblem
Civil flag of Transnistria superimposed with a version of the national emblem

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