Posted on February 17, 2010 - by Venik
Soviet soldier pictured in iconic 1945 Reichstag photo dies
Abdulkhakim Ismailov was one of three Soviet soldiers seen in photograph taken shortly after fall of Berlin in 1945
A Red Army soldier who appears in a historic photograph helping hoist a hammer-and-sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945 has died, aged 93.
Abdulkhakim Ismailov died of unspecified causes on Tuesday in his native village of Chagar-Otar.
Ismailov was one of the three Soviet soldiers seen in the iconic photograph, which was taken shortly after the fall of Berlin in May 1945. He stands beneath the man holding the flagpole.
The photo became an iconic image of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. It has often been compared to the 1945 Associated Press photograph of US soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. The Soviet photographer, Yevgeny Khaldei, said years later that the image was staged, and the flag was sewn from three tablecloths. as the original hammer-and-sickle flag flown from the Reichstag was shot down by German snipers.
After the war, Ismailov served as a chairman of a collective farm and a Communist party official. He is survived by four children and eight grandchildren.
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