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Meliton Kantaria was born on 5 October, 1920 in Jvari, Democratic Republic of Georgia, is a Soviet Georgian sergeant (1920–1993). Discover Meliton Kantaria's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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73 years old |
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Libra |
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5 October 1920 |
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5 October |
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Jvari, Democratic Republic of Georgia |
| Date of death |
27 December, 1993 |
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Moscow, Russia |
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Georgia
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Meliton Kantaria Height, Weight & Measurements
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Meliton Kantaria Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Meliton Kantaria worth at the age of 73 years old? Meliton Kantaria’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Georgia. We have estimated Meliton Kantaria's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya (მელიტონ ქანთარია, Мелитон Варламович Кантария; 5 October 1920 – 27 December 1993) was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credited with having hoisted a Soviet flag over the Reichstag on 30 April 1945, together with Mikhail Yegorov and Aleksey Berest.
Born to a peasant family in a small Georgian town of Jvari, he worked in a kolkhoz until being mobilized in the Red Army in 1940.
He is credited for having mounted a red banner, together with Sergeant M.A. Yegorov, over the Reichstag on 1 May 1945.
Demobilized in 1946, he lived thereafter in Sukhumi working as a governmental shop manager.
He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1947.
He lived in the city of Ochamchire, and later became a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR.
In 1965, together with Yegorov and Konstantin Samsonov, he carried the Victory Banner at the Moscow Victory Day Parade on Red Square.
He was an Honorary Citizen of Berlin from 8 May 1965 to 29 September 1992.
In the same formation, they carried the banner at the International Workers' Day demonstration in 1970.
During World War II, he served in the 756th Rifle Regiment, 150th Rifle Division, of the 3rd Shock Army at the 1st Belorussian Front.
A year after the secessionist war in Abkhazia started, during which Kantaria's house in Ochamchira was destroyed, he moved with his family to Moscow, where he later died two months later in December 1993 in a Moscow hospital.
In early January 1994, Kantaria was reburied in his native town Jvari, on the grounds of School #3.
In 2010 on Poklonnaya Hill, a memorial was opened dedicated to Yegorov and Kantaria.
Modern day Georgia holds Kantaria in high historical regard, being one of few whose Soviet era legacy was rehabilitated.
Since 2011, the school where he has been buried has been named after Kantaria.
It was renamed by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili during that year's Victory Day celebrations, during which he noted that Kantaria "is probably the most classic example of the tragic fate of our people, since he ended his life as a refugee".
A bust of Kantaria was unveiled installed in Tbilisi's Kikvidze Park at the initiative of the veteran organization "Heirs of Victory" in 2016.
