BLACK SEA –AZOV STATE MARITIME SHIPPING AUTHORITY.

The pennant is blue and red with a yellow hammer and sickle. Lomantsov’s updated account dates adoption to 30 July 1923 and use until 1926, superseding his earlier suggestion of survival into the 1990s from magazine sightings. Rosanoski cites abolition on 15 January 1926, but also notes a possibly relevant decree adopting a pennant on 29 August 1924 and abolishing it on 26 January 1926. The conflicting dates are not resolved; the illustration follows the updated account rather than the earlier dark-blue version.