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 for the victory of communism and the "world-wide socialist community of states".

The banner bore the USSR State motto (Proletarians of all countries, unite!)

in both Russian and Lithuanian (Visų šalių proletarai, vienykitės!).

The coat of arms differed little from those of Estonian, Latvian, Moldavian or other soviet socialist republics.