On 5 May 2014, employees of the Smolensk Region Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee took part in a rally dedicated to the 69th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The rally took place by the Eternal Flame in Heroes Memory Public Garden.
The employees of the Investigations Directorate paid tributes to their great fellow-townsman, Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Yegorov, who would have been 91 on that day. Mikhail Yegorod was especially distinguished during battle of Berlin. The Military Council of the 3rd Shock Army instituted 9 banners, one for each of divisions, to be placed at Reichstag. Banner number 5 was given to scouts of the 756th rifle regiment Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov and Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantaria. At night of 30 April 1945 in 1st battalion they managed to do their way to the dome of the Reichstag and were ones of the first to place their banners there. Half an hour later Yegorov and Kantaria joined a heated battle. They had scars on the palms of their hands to remember all their lives how they had climbed the glass dome of the Reichstag. (There were many Red Flags placed at Reichstag then, but it was Yegorov’s and Kantaria’s Red Flag which is officially considered the Victory Flag).
The employees of the Investigations Directorate placed flowers on the graves of the Homeland protectors buried at the fortified wall and paid tributes by a minute of silence to Eternal Memory of all those who had been killed in that terrible war.
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