Coat of arms of Transnistria

Coat of arms of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
Coat of arms of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
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	Using initials
Armiger	Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
Adopted	2 September 1991
Crest	Red star
Shield	hammer and sickle, Rising sun above the Dniester river
Supporters	Wheat, corn, grape and fruit
Motto	Russian: Приднестровская Молдавская Республика; Romanian: Република Молдовеняскэ Нистрянэ (in Moldovan Cyrillic); Ukrainian: Придністровська Молдавська Республіка
Other elements	Red star, rising sun
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Transnistria is a region in Eastern Europe that is under the effective control of the self-declared Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic but is recognized by the international community as an administrative unit of Moldova, the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester.

The Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic uses a coat of arms based on the arms of the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester use the coat of arms of Moldova.

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The coat of arms of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic constitutes a remodeled version of the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic's emblem, which was replaced by the internationally recognized Moldovan government after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The only major pictorial change made in the Transnistrian version involves the addition of waves, representing the River Dniester. However, the inscriptions on the banner were changed: unlike the Moldavian SSR emblem, which bore the acronym РССМ (for "Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic") and the USSR state slogan "Workers of the world, unite!" in the Romanian and Russian languages, the Transnistrian emblem bears the name PRIDNESTROVIAN MOLDAVIAN REPUBLIC in the Russian, Romanian and Ukrainian languages.

In Russian, it reads "ПРИДНЕСТРОВСКАЯ МОЛДАВСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА" (transliterated as Pridnestrovskaya Moldavskaya Respublika) to the left;
In Moldovan Cyrillic, it reads "РЕПУБЛИКА МОЛДОВЕНЯСКЭ НИСТРЯНЭ" (transliterated as Republica Moldovenească Nistreană) in the middle;
In Ukrainian, it reads "ПРИДНІСТРОВСЬКА МОЛДАВСЬКА РЕСПУБЛІКА" (transliterated as Prydnistrovs'ka Moldavs'ka Respublika) to the right.

Despite the emblem's depiction of the hammer and sickle, Transnistria is not a socialist state. The current president of Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselsky, who identifies himself as a monarchist, has stated that he considers the Soviet symbolism in the emblems of his country to be "irrelevant".^[1]

Emblem of the Moldavian SSR; the Transnistrian coat of arms is based on it
A road signboard with civil flag of Transnistria that superimposed with simplified version of the national emblem

The law which formally established the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester contains provisions for the region to adopt its own symbols.^[2] The region has not currently adopted a distinctive emblem therefore the Coat of arms of Moldova are used for official purposes.^[3]