Awarding M.A. Egorova and M.V. Cantaria in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. October 7, 1970. Heroes of the Soviet Union Meliton Varlamovich Kantaria (left) and Mikhail Alekseevich Egorov (right) and Ambassador of the German Democratic Republic Horst Bittner after the award ceremony at the GDR embassy. Participants of the Great Patriotic War M.V. Kantaria and M.A. Egorov were awarded the GDR Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the German people from fascism and for their services in the construction of socialism in the GDR. Alexey Stuzhin/TASS