The coat of arms of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic was adopted on 1940 by the government of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. The coat of arms was designed by Vsevolodas Dobužinskis

Vsevolodas Dobužinskis

Vsevolodas Dobužinskis was a Lithuanian painter. He designed the coat of arms of the Lithuanian SSR.-References:*Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia...

 based on the coat of arms of the Soviet Union

Coat of arms of the Soviet Union

The State Emblem of the Soviet Union was adopted in 1923 and was used until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Although it technically is an emblem rather than a coat of arms, since it does not follow heraldic rules, in Russian it is called герб , the word used for a traditional coat of...

. The new coat of arms replaced the traditional coat of arms of Lithuania

Coat of arms of Lithuania

The coat of arms of Lithuania, consisting of an armor-clad knight on horseback holding an olden sword and shield, is also known as Vytis . The Lithuanian coat of arms is one of the oldest national coats of arms in Europe...

, known as Vytis, which was banned until Lithuania declared its independence

Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania

The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 11 was an independence declaration by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic adopted on March 11, 1990...

 in 1990.

It featured symbols of agriculture (oak branches and wheat). The rising sun stood for the future of the Lithuanian nation, the red star as well as the hammer and sickle

Hammer and sickle

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 for the victory of communism and the "world-wide socialist community of states". The banner bore the USSR State motto

USSR State motto

The Soviet Union state motto is a quotation from Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, meaning Workers of the world, unite!....

 (Proletarians of all countries, unite!) in both Russian

Russian language

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 and Lithuanian

Lithuanian language

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 (Visų šalių proletarai, vienykitės!). The initialism of the Lithuanian SSR is shown only in the Lithuanian language

Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognized as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.96 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 170,000 abroad. Lithuanian is a Baltic language, closely related to Latvian, although they...

– LTSR, for Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika. The coat of arms differed little from those of Estonian, Latvian, Moldavian or other soviet socialist republics.

Earlier version of the coat of arms, until 1970s, had darker oak leaves.