It shows symbols of agriculture (pine boughs and rye) and the local terrain (a swift-flowing river from the hills).

The rising Sun stands for the future of the Karelo-Finnish nation; and the red star as well as the hammer and sickle for the victory of Communism and the "world-wide socialist community of states".

[3] The slogan on the banner bears the Soviet Union state motto ("Workers of the world, unite!")

In Finnish, it is "Kaikkien maiden proletaarit, liittykää yhteen!".

From 1956 to 1991, the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic used a variant of the Emblem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.