XVI Congress of the Komsomol

USSR. Moscow. Hero of the Soviet Union, veteran of the Great Patriotic War Meliton Varlamovich Kantaria (center, foreground), who on May 2, 1945, raised the Victory Banner on the roof of the Reichstag building in Berlin to commemorate the victory of the Soviet people over Nazi Germany, during the ceremonial carrying out of the banners at the final session of the 16th Congress of the All-Union Leninist Communist Youth League in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Viktor Budan, Valentin Kuzmin/TASS