<P> In 1917 , Vladimir Lenin and Anatoly Lunacharsky held a competition to create a Soviet emblem . The winning design was a hammer and sickle on top of a globe in rays of the sun , surrounded by a wreath of grain and under a five - pointed star , with the inscription `` proletariats of the world , unite ! '' in six languages ( Russian , Ukrainian , Belarusian , Georgian , Armenian and Azerbaijani ) . It originally featured a sword , but Lenin strongly objected , disliking the violent connotations . The winning designer was Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin ( 1885 -- 1957 ) . </P>
<P> In 1917 , Vladimir Lenin and Anatoly Lunacharsky held a competition to create a Soviet emblem . The winning design was a hammer and sickle on top of a globe in rays of the sun , surrounded by a wreath of grain and under a five - pointed star , with the inscription `` proletariats of the world , unite ! '' in six languages ( Russian , Ukrainian , Belarusian , Georgian , Armenian and Azerbaijani ) . It originally featured a sword , but Lenin strongly objected , disliking the violent connotations . The winning designer was Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin ( 1885 -- 1957 ) . </P>
who came up with the hammer and sickle
who came up with the hammer and sickle
Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin