MILITARY PERSONNEL

Meliton Kantaria

1920 - 1993

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Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya (Georgian: მელიტონ ქანთარია; Russian: Мелитон Варламович Кантария, romanized: Meliton Varlamovich Kantariya; 5 October 1920 – 27 December 1993) was a sergeant of the Soviet Army credited with having hoisted a Soviet flag over the Reichstag on 1 May 1945, together with Mikhail Yegorov and Aleksey Berest. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meliton Kantaria has received more than 193,332 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Meliton Kantaria is the 766th most popular military personnel (down from 661st in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Georgia (down from 49th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Georgian Military Personnel.

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  • 57.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Meliton Kantaria ranks 766 out of 2,058. Before him are Saad el-Shazly, Lala Şahin Pasha, Otozō Yamada, Friedrich Hossbach, Yağısıyan, and Princess Pingyang. After him are Alexios Apokaukos, Peter Lacy, Fyodor Kuznetsov, Dan Halutz, Walter Stennes, and François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Meliton Kantaria ranks 110. Before him are José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Jack Warden, Victor Turner, Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Väinö Linna, and Tonino Guerra. After him are Heinz Kessler, Ray Harryhausen, Don Taylor, Paik Sun-yup, Mohammed Dib, and Martine Carol. Among people deceased in 1993, Meliton Kantaria ranks 69. Before him are Eddie Constantine, Silvina Ocampo, Luciano Leggio, Yen Chia-kan, Nina Berberova, and C. Northcote Parkinson. After him are Kenneth E. Boulding, Desanka Maksimović, Salah Jadid, Myrna Loy, John Connally, and Maurice Yaméogo.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Meliton Kantaria ranks 63 out of 406. Before him are David VI of Georgia (1225), Boris Akunin (1956), Vakhtang Kikabidze (1938), Şevkefza Kadın (1820), Akim Tamiroff (1899), and Hümaşah Sultan (1634). After him are Georgiy Daneliya (1930), Giorgi Saakadze (1570), Abaris the Hyperborean (null), Qaitbay (1416), Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia (1869), and George V of Georgia (1286).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Georgia

Among military personnels born in Georgia, Meliton Kantaria ranks 4. Before him are Yakov Dzhugashvili (1907), Aleksei Brusilov (1853), and Roustam Raza (1783). After him are Gurgen Dalibaltayan (1926), Kakutsa Cholokashvili (1888), Oleksii Arestovych (1975), Abu Omar al-Shishani (1986), and Zaza Gogava (1971).

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