Background
Egorov, Mikhail was born in 1923.
Egorov, Mikhail was born in 1923.
During World War II, joined the partisans in Smolensk Oblast’. Later in the Red Army. Distinguished himself at the Vistula and Oder rivers.
One of two Soviet soldiers (with Kantaria) who planted the Red Flag on the top of the Reichstag at the end of World War II. Hero of the Soviet Union, 1946. Joined the Communist Party, 1950.