© РИА Томск. Павел Стефанский TOMSK, Apr
22 – RIA Tomsk. A memorable stele and ten cedars that will be "named"
after Mikhail Yegorov, Meliton Kantaria and other soldiers who captured the
Reichstag in 1945 will appear in the Krivosheinsky district of the Tomsk region
– small home of the first Soviet commandant of the Reichstag Fedor Zinchenko,
the organizer Igor Kramarenko told reporters on Monday.
Earlier it
was reported that the children and grandchildren of the Soviet military, who
raised the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag, had arrived to the Tomsk
region – the home of the first Soviet commandant of the Reichstag Zinchenko.
According
to Kramarenko, on Monday, the guests opened a school museum of the history of
the village of Mezheninovka in the Tomsk region, where Zinchenko lived. On
Wednesday in the village of Krivosheino guests will visit a larger school
exposition dedicated to the famous native of the district, as well as open a
6-meter stele in his honor on the site of the village where Zinchenko was born.
"On
Wednesday, we will open this sign and plant ten named cedars around. There will
be (plates) to each tree: "Mikhail Yegorov", "Meliton
Kantaria", "Fedor Zinchenko", "Alexei Berest",
"Stepan Neustroev ... ", – Kramarenko said at a press conference in
the RIA Tomsk media center, explaining that the author of the stele is the
Tomsk sculptor Anton Gnedykh.
The capture
of the Reichstag in 1945 was a key operation in the storming of Berlin. The
Victory Banner over the defeated German parliament on April 30 was hoisted by
Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria. The battalion in which they served was
commanded by the Captain Stepan Neustroev. Fire support for the scouts was
provided by the company of Ilya Syanov. The first Soviet commandant of the
Reichstag was Fedor Zinchenko, native of the Tomsk province.