However, many Supreme Council of Crimea members had supported the version of a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top.

The final design for the flag was submitted in the second session of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea on 24 September 1992.

[7] The short-lived Crimean Regional Government (Russian: Крымское краевое правительство), led by General Maciej (Suleyman) Sulkiewicz (a Lithuanian Tatar by origin), existed during the German occupation of Crimea (25 June–15 November 1918), in which the Crimean government proclaimed a self-rule.

When the Crimean ASSR was established as part of the Russian SFSR on 18 October 1921, it received its own flag.

The lettering on the flag was changed to include КрАССР, and QrMSŞÇ in the Uniform Turkic Alphabet in 1929 in order to indicate Crimea as an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

The flag was amended yet again in 1938 with the lettering Cyrillic РСФСР at the top (for Russian SFSR) and КрАССР at the bottom.