Meliton Kantaria
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Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya was a sergeant of the Soviet Army credited with having hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag on 1 May 1945, together with Mikhail Yegorov and Alexei
Kantaria in 1945
A statue of Kantaria at the school with his namesake in 2013.
Kantaria's home in Ochamchire, which was destroyed during the fighting.
Mikhail Yegorov
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Yegorov was a sergeant of the Soviet Army who, along with Meliton Kantaria and Alexei Berest, was one of the three soldiers credited with having hoisted the Victory Banner over th
Meliton Kantaria
…27 December 1993) was a sergeant of the Soviet Army credited with having hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag on 1 May 1945, together with Mikhail Yegorov and Alexei Berest. Born to a peasant family in a small Georgian town of Jvari, he worked in a kolkhoz until being mobilized in the Red Army in 1940…
Yegorov in 1945