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Name
  
M. Yegorov

Role
  
Soldier

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Died
  
June 20, 1975, Smolensk, Russia

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Mikhail Alekseevich Yegorov (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Егоров; born May 5, 1923 - June 20, 1975), along with Meliton Kantaria, was one of the two soldiers credited with raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag on the 2 May 1945 after the Battle of Berlin.

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Yegorov joined the partisans during the Nazi occupation, then enlisted in the Red Army in late 1944 as an infantry scout. He worked at a dairy farm after leaving the army. He was killed in a traffic accident.

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Honours and awards

  • Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Order of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner
  • Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class
  • Order of the Red Star
  • Order of Glory 3rd class
  • Medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class
  • Jubilee Medal "For Military Valour in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
  • Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
  • Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

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