MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities say 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. He was 93.
The press office of the president of Russia’s southern province of Dagestan saidFeb. 17that Abdulkhakim Ismailov died of unspecified causes late Tuesday in his native village of Chagar-Otar.
Ismailov was one of the three Soviet soldiers seen in a photograph taken three days 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.
