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Jul 29, 1922 Died on 10 Jan 2008 (aged 85)
Russian Soviet soldier
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About Mikhail Minin
- Mikhail Petrovich Minin (Russian: ?????? ???????? ?????; July 29, 1922 – January 10, 2008) was a Russian Soviet soldier who was the first to enter the Reichstag building on April 30, 1945 during the Battle of Berlin, and the first soldier to mount the flag on the Reichstag building at 10:40 pm.
- He was born in Palkinsky District. The iconic picture showing a Georgian soldier, Meliton Kantaria, fixing a pole with the hammer-and-sickle flag blowing in the wind was posed on the Reichstag roof two days later, on May 2, 1945.
- The night that the Reichstag was taken by Minin's platoon there was no photographer available. Mikhail Minin was born in 1922 in the village of Vanino, in western Russia's Pskov Oblast.
- In June 1941 he volunteered to join the army to fight against Nazi Germany.
- He took part in battles to liberate Leningrad from blockade and made his way across the fronts from Leningrad to Berlin.
