Aleksey Kovalev
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Aleksei Leontievich Kovalev was a Red Army soldier who was identified as the flag holder in the Raising a Flag over the Reichstag photograph in Berlin.
Raising a Flag over the Reichstag, by Yevgeny Khaldei, 1945
Abdulkhakim Ismailov
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Abdulkhakim Isakovich Ismailov was a Soviet soldier who was identified as one of the two men in the 1945 photograph Raising a Flag over the Reichstag, which was taken by Soviet war photographer Yevgen
Aleksey Kovalev
…already been planted there. Allegedly, when he asked who had first raised the Soviet flag over the building, the soldiers present singled out Kovalev, Abdulkhakim Ismailov, and Leonid Gorychev. Khaldei produced a flag of his own and asked the men to help him to the roof. Kovalev attached the flag used in Raising a Flag…
Abdulkhakim Ismailov
Ismailov holding the flag-bearer, Aleksey Kovalev, in the Raising a Flag over the Reichstag photograph taken on 2 May 1945.