Emblem of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The coat of arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1943 to 1991 in use. Designer coat of arms is Đorđe Andrejević -kun.

The coat of arms was from 1943 to 1963 from five, then six burning in a common flame torches. The five torches symbolizing the five nations of Yugoslavia ( Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians ). The Yugoslav- Muslim communities were not represented in it, which is why in 1963 instead of the peoples of the six republics of Bosnia - Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia were symbolized. The common flame stands for brotherhood and unity.

This part of the crest is surrounded by a wreath of wheat ears. A looped around the ears and blue bow bears the inscription 29 - XI - 1943, which commemorates 29 November 1943. On this day a meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia was held in zentralbosnischen Jajce, where the basis for the federal post-war organization of the country was decided. About the common flame stands at the tips of the ears, the symbol of communism and Tito's partisans, the red star.

The silver plate on which the coat of arms was especially common to find at first, is not uncommitted in laws part of the arms, even if it constituted an essential part of a series of Yugoslav Heraldisten.