Naval flags of the Soviet Union

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• Russian Navy website,
  reported by Pascal Vagnat, 16 Dec 1998

The Navy of USSR had 4 broad-pennants: All they had the navy ensign at the hoist and the fly of different colours:

• red fly
  for Commander of a Formation of ships (Komandir soedineniya korabley)
• white fly
  for Senior Commander (Starshiy na reide)
• blue fly
  for Commander of a Division of ships (Komandir soedineniya korabley)
• green fly
  for Commander of a Formation of ships of the Border Guard Forces (Komandir soedineniya korabley pogranichnyh voysk)

The only pre-1972 use of two-letter abbreviations on Soviet uniforms that I know of is the Navy’s use of BF (for Baltic Fleet), SF (for Northern Fleet), TF (for Pacific Fleet) and ChF (for Black Sea Fleet) and F (for General Fleet Service).

Baltic Fleet

Northern Fleet

Pacific Fleet

Black Sea Fleet

General Fleet Service

Norman Martin, 15 Mar 1999