5 October 1920 Jvari, Democratic Republic of Georgia
Died
27 December 1993(1993-12-27) (aged 73) Moscow, Russia
Allegiance
Soviet Union
Service/branch
Red Army
Years of service
1940–1946
Rank
Junior sergeant
Unit
150th Rifle Division
Battles/wars
World War II
Awards
Hero of the Soviet Union
Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya (Georgian: მელიტონ ქანთარიაmelit’on kantaria, Russian: Мелитон Варламович Кантария, romanized: Meliton Varlamovich Kantariya; 5 October 1920 – 27 December 1993) was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credited with having hoisted a Soviet flag over the Reichstag on 1 May 1945, together with Mikhail Yegorov and Aleksey Berest.[1]
music MelitonKantaria (1920–1993), Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army who hoisted a Soviet flag Banner of Victory over the Reichstag in 1945 Meliton, Metropolitan...
The official story would later be that two hand-picked soldiers, MelitonKantaria (Georgian) and Mikhail Yegorov (Russian), raised the Soviet flag over...
Михаил Алексеевич Егоров; May 5, 1923 – June 20, 1975), along with MelitonKantaria and Alexei Berest, was one of the three soldiers credited with raising...
picture Raising a Flag over the Reichstag showing a Georgian soldier, MelitonKantaria, fixing a pole with the hammer-and-sickle flag on the Reichstag roof...
in the United States under the title, "The Oath". Biography portal MelitonKantaria – Soviet flag raiser over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945 Mikhail Yegorov...
Jima Battle of Guam (1944) Flags of Our Fathers – James Bradley, 2000 MelitonKantaria – Soviet flag raiser over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945 Mikhail Yegorov –...
troops. Despite this, the weak drill training of Mikhail Yegorov, MelitonKantaria and Stepan Neustroev forced Marshal Zhukov to not go ahead with this...
Flag on Iwo Jima Shadow of Suribachi: Raising The Flags on Iwo Jima MelitonKantaria – Soviet flag raiser over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945. Mikhail Yegorov...
fight for the protection of the homeland and its territorial integrity MelitonKantaria (1920-1993) was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credited with...
attacked the Reichstag. On 1 May, at about 03:00, Berest and two scouts - MelitonKantaria and Mikhail Yegorov - hoisted one of nine Soviet flags given to the...
Lieutenant Alexei Berest, together with two scouts—Mikhail Yegorov and MelitonKantaria—raised the Victory Banner atop the Reichstag, next to Wilhelm I's statue...
navy Noe Adamia (1914–1942), Soviet sniper, hero of the Soviet Union MelitonKantaria (1920–1993), sergeant of the Red Army who raised the Soviet victory...
politically correct.[clarification needed][citation needed] So they became MelitonKantaria (a Georgian, like Stalin) and Mikhail Yegorov (a Russian). On April...
planted trees; among were them Yuri Gagarin, Mikhail Gorbachev and MelitonKantaria. In 2009, free park Wi-Fi access was launched. Wikimedia Commons has...
Afanasy Beloborodov. It was on that very parade that Mikhail Yegorov and MelitonKantaria, the then two surviving raisers of the Victory Banner, escorted it...
Regiment of the 150th Infantry Division Sergeants Mikhail Yegorov and MelitonKantaria. Almost all the Ural formations and units sent to the active army during...
neighboring municipality Chkhorotsqu did the same. Municipal Assembly Mayor MelitonKantaria (1920 – 1993) – was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credited...
several Soviet flags atop the structure, one of which – placed by MelitonKantaria, Mikhail Yegorov and Alexei Berest – was eventually proclaimed the...
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