It features symbols of agriculture (wheat) and Latvia's maritime culture (a sunset over the Baltic Sea).

The red star as well as the hammer and sickle for the victory of communism and the "world-wide socialist community of states".

[2] In the period from the creation of Latvian SSR on July 21 to August 25, 1940, the coat of arms of the Republic of Latvia continued to be used.

[3] On August 25, 1940, in the second session of the People's Saeima of the LSSR the Constitution of the Latvian SSR was approved, Article 116 of which described the coat of arms of the SSR: The State Emblem of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic depicts a golden sickle and a hammer surrounded by ears in the rays of the sun rising from the sea, at the top of the emblem is a five-pointed golden star, on the ribbon, wrapping grain ears and inscriptions in Latvian: in the center — Latvijas PSR, and on the sides: Workers of the world, unite!

The project of the emblem was created by graphic artist Artūrs Apinis, a former pupil of Rihards Zariņš and a professor of the Art Academy of Latvia.