MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mikhail Yegorov

1923 - 1975

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Mikhail Alekseyevich Yegorov (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Егоров; May 5, 1923 – June 20, 1975), along with Meliton Kantaria and Alexei Berest, was one of the three soldiers credited with raising the Soviet flag over the Reichstag on the 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. He worked at a dairy farm after leaving the army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Yegorov has received more than 99,466 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Mikhail Yegorov is the 1,559th most popular military personnel (down from 1,391st in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 121st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Belarusian Military Personnel.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

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  • 3.28

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mikhail Yegorov ranks 1,559 out of 2,058. Before him are James Somerville, Friedrich Schulz, Benjamin Briggs, Melvin Purvis, Infante João, Duke of Beja, and Xue Yue. After him are Oleg Salyukov, Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, John Frost, Duke Alexander of Oldenburg, Natalya Kovshova, and Maximilian von Edelsheim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Mikhail Yegorov ranks 238. Before him are Jacob Taubes, Betsy Blair, Alice Coachman, Rafael Addiego Bruno, Og Mandino, and Mrinal Sen. After him are Brendan Behan, Karl Vaino, Gordon R. Dickson, François Cavanna, Netti Witziers-Timmer, and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat. Among people deceased in 1975, Mikhail Yegorov ranks 136. Before him are Clyde Tolson, Gaston Gallimard, Friedrich Sämisch, Manuel Seoane, Gustav von Wangenheim, and Harold Osborn. After him are G. I. Taylor, Tony Brise, Pierre Fresnay, Plínio Salgado, Kyusaku Ogino, and Mary Ure.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Mikhail Yegorov ranks 123 out of 368. Before him are Leonid Mandelstam (1879), Anna Missuna (1868), Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (1845), Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909), Bryachislav of Polotsk (997), and Roman Golovchenko (1973). After him are Alaiza Pashkevich (1876), Alaksandar Milinkievič (1947), Pyotr Masherov (1918), Kazimierz Alchimowicz (1840), David Sarnoff (1891), and Jan Piotr Sapieha (1569).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Belarus

Among military personnels born in Belarus, Mikhail Yegorov ranks 7. Before him are Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746), Bronislav Kaminski (1899), Ivan Yakubovsky (1912), Aleksei Antonov (1896), Fyodor Kuznetsov (1898), and Juliusz Rómmel (1881). After him are Sergey Gritsevets (1909).

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