The coat of arms of the Transcaucasian SFSR was adopted by the government of the Transcaucasian SFSR

Transcaucasian SFSR

The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic , also known as the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the TSFSR for short, was a short-lived republic of the Soviet Union, lasting from 1922 to 1936...

. It is uncertain when exactly it was adopted.

The coat of arms is based loosely on the coat of arms of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. It incorporates designs from each of the three major groups that combined in the Transcaucasian SFSR, the Armenians

Armenians

Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....

, Azeri and Georgians

Georgian people

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, and unusually features Islam

Islam

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ic art and communist elements side by side. The latticework

Latticework

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 in the star itself bespeaks the former coat of arms of Georgia

Coat of arms of Georgia (country)

The coat of arms of the Republic of Georgia was adopted on 1 October 2004. It is partially based on the medieval arms of the Georgian royal house of Bagrationi....

 from 1918-1921 and adopted again from 1991-2004; the crescent

Crescent

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 represents the Muslim Azeris, on a background depicting the national symbol of the Armenians, Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat

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. The rising sun stands for the future, the star as well as the hammer and sickle

Hammer and sickle

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 for the victory of communism

Communism

Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 and the "world-wide socialist community of states".

In 1936, the republic was dissolved and the three regions became the Georgian, Armenian

Armenian SSR

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 and Azerbaijan SSR

Azerbaijan SSR

The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Azerbaijan SSR for short, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union....

respectively.