Grishka Rychstag

On April0, 1945, a red banner appeared over the Reichstag. Banner of Victory. Office this happened at 21.50. And the banner was hooked by Mikhail Egorov and Meliton Cantaria. They awarded them for this feat by the heroes of the Soviet Union. In every textbook it is written about this.

But the Banner of Victory appeared above the Reichstag on April 30 at 14.25 minutes. And this feat was accomplished by Lieutenant Rakhimzhan Koshkarbaev and Red Army Grigory Bulatov.

- Well, they said - do you need? So - it is necessary! The lieutenant and I crawled on the belly. Oh, and there was fire, oh and fire. We jump from the funnel to the funnel like hares. To the moat, some kind of boiled and lay there. I am to him - "What are we going to do, Comrade Lieutenant?" And then the lieutenant tells me, let's write names at least on the banner, otherwise not order. He takes out a chemical pencil and writes, the trash of it, "Lieutenant Koshkarbaev, Private Bulatov 674 Regiment, 1 battalion." Yeah, on the banner. So it was homemade. Not a regimental. Wrote, then. Well, we took a moment and ran to the Reichstag. And behind us is already a battalion. We quickly knocked out the Germans and to the second floor. I stuck out the flag out the window - they shout, they say, it’s not visible, so the lieutenant and I got out onto the roof then. There is a man on a horse. Stone, durynda you. I attached the banner to this horse. I hung from the roof, screaming - now you can see? It can be seen, as it turned out, everyone is fine. Even in the movie it was shot. Roman Carmen shot. And I have a photo. They took a picture of us there. So - the first Koshkarbaev and I were. The first.

The final combat report of 674SP 150 Side, 29.4.45-02.5.45.

... by conducting fierce battles, the regiment units by 5:00 30.4.45. They occupied the Ministry of the Interior - the office of Himmler and at 9:00 occupied the original line before the assault on the Reichstag. ... After the artillery preparation, which began at 14:00, the assault on the Reichstag began. At 14:25 30.4.45. They broke into the Reichstag building from the northern part of the western facade 1 page and a platoon of the 2nd pages of the company 1 p. Battalion 674SP, with whom there were 6 people to establish a flag over the Reichstag.

Intelligence platoon commander 1 p. Battalion ml. Lieutenant Koshkarbaev and the fighter of the intelligence officer of the regiment Bulatov, a banner over the building of the Reichstag was hoisted.

Commander 674SP Lieutenant Colonel Pleskodanov

Beginning. headquarters 674SP Major Zhavoronkov

At the end of the war, Grigory Bulatov was summoned to talk to Stalin, who invited him to forget about the feat for 20 years and for his disagreement was sent to places not so remote from a falsified crime.

Then he returned to his hometown of Slobodskaya, where he worked on the alloy of wood. For a long time he hid his feat. After 20 years, he unsuccessfully tried to prove him, for which he received the nickname "Grishka-Raichstag" among his acquaintances. I drank a lot. Later he committed suicide.

He was buried in the city of Slobodsky, Kirov region.

In 2009, the governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh promised that the regional authorities would try to achieve historical justice and conferring the title of hero Bulatov by the 65th anniversary of Victory.

So far, historical justice has not been restored.