Mikhail Yegorov
Mikhail Alekseyevich Yegorov (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Егоров; 5 May 1923 – 20 June 1975) 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 the Reichstag on 1 May 1945 after the Battle of Berlin. Yegorov joined the partisans during the Nazi occupation, then enlisted in the Red Army in late 1944 as an infantry scout.