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词条 Meliton Kantaria
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  1. Biography

  2. Honours and awards

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox military person
|name = Meliton Kantaria
|native_name = მელიტონ ვარლამის ძე ქანთარია
|birth_date = 5 October 1920
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1993|12|27|1920|10|5}}
|image = Meliton Kantaria.jpeg
|caption =
|nickname =
|birth_place = Jvari, Georgia
|death_place = Moscow, Russia
|allegiance = {{USSR|Soviet Union}}
|branch = {{flagicon image|Red Army flag.svg}} Red Army
|serviceyears = 1940–1946
|rank = Junior sergeant
|unit = 150th Rifle Division
|commands =
|residence =
|battles = World War II
|awards = Hero of the Soviet Union
|relations =
|laterwork =
}}Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya ({{lang-ka|მელიტონ ქანთარია}}, {{lang-ru|Мелитон Варламович Кантария}}; 5 October 1920 – 27 December 1993), Hero of the Soviet Union (8 May 1946), was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credited to have hoisted a Soviet flag over the Reichstag on 30 April 1945, together with Mikhail Yegorov and Alexei Berest.[1]

Biography

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. During World War II, he served in the 756th Rifle Regiment, 150th Rifle Division, of the 3rd Shock Army at the 1st Belorussian Front. He is credited for having mounted a red banner, together with Sergeant M.A. Yegorov, over the Reichstag on 1 May 1945.[2]

Demobilized in 1946, he lived thereafter in Sukhumi working as a governmental shop manager. He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1947. A year after the secessionist war in Abkhazia started, he moved with his family to Moscow[3] where he died two months later in December 1993 in a Moscow hospital.

Honours and awards

  • Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner
  • Order of the Patriotic War 1st class
  • campaign and jubilee medals

See also

  • Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
  • Mikhail Minin - according to later researches, the first flag raiser over the Reichstag

References

1. ^[https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://rt.com/files/politics/russia-georgia-monument-history/Meliton-Kantaria--a-Red-Army-soldier-and-an-ethnic-Georgian--raising-a-Soviet-flag-over-the-Reichstag-in-Berlin.-30.04-416.1945.n.jpg&imgrefurl=http://rt.com/politics/russia-georgia-monument-history/&usg=__YARVIsce6sqJggSnnCVNZ1YPRTA=&h=277&w=370&sz=83&hl=en&start=151&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=iwR0jNn36zrMRM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGeorgian%2BArmy%2B2010%26start%3D140%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dde%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2ADFA_deDE400%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=pjNITcPMNc3wsgbbxMjgAg Rewriting and demolishing history].
2. ^Федеральный закон РФ от 7 мая 2007 г. N 68
3. ^Izvestia, Сын Героя Советского Союза Мелитона Кантарии Шота: "Отец для прочности древко своим ремнем закрепил" {{webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20120525153832/www.izvestia.ru/pobeda/article3103920/ |date=2012-05-25 }}, 8.5.2007 {{ru icon}}

External links

  • More details about the Banner of Victory at http://www.crwflags.com
  • Meliton Varlamovich Kantaria {{ru icon}}
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14 : 1920 births|1993 deaths|People from Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti|Mingrelians|Military personnel from Georgia (country)|Heroes of the Soviet Union|People from Georgia (country)|People of World War II from Georgia (country)|Soviet people of World War II|Battle of Berlin|People notable for being the subject of a specific photograph|Recipients of the Order of Lenin|Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner|Recipients of the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

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