From the biography of Mikhail Petrovich Minin
Mikhail Petrovich Minin was born in the village of Vanino, Palkinsky district on July 29, 1922. He began to work early on in his native land: he helped his mother in a vegetable-growing brigade on a collective farm for six years, until the end of the 7th grade of the Novo-Usitovskaya incomplete secondary school.
After leaving school in 1938, he went to enter the Leningrad technical school. I passed the exams successfully. Studied diligently. During his studies, in his free time, he worked part-time on unloading freight wagons, as a handyman.
On June 21, 1941, he successfully passed all the exams of the spring session for the third year, like all the previous ones. After graduating from college, he dreamed of devoting himself to his beloved work.
But on June 22, war broke out ... And on June 30, nineteen-year-old Mikhail Minin signed up as a volunteer for the front. Ahead were "difficult roads to victory ..."
He had to fight on various fronts. Participant in defensive battles, and then offensives. He also participated in the liberation of his native Pskov region: Velikiye Luki, Nevel, Pustoshka. Then he fought in the territory of Latvia, Poland, Germany. He took part in the battles in Berlin, in the storming of the Reichstag, in hoisting the Red Banner "over this citadel of fascism."
Here's how events unfolded: "Paving the way with grenades and machine-gun bursts, the assault group moved forward. Against the background of a glow of fire, a sculptural group was noticed. On it, despite the artillery fire, Sergeant MP Minin hoisted the Red Banner. On the cloth he wrote the names Then Captain Makov, accompanied by Bobrov, went downstairs and immediately reported by radio to the corps commander, General Perevertkin, that at 22:40 the group was the first to hoist the Red Banner over the Reichstag. " This event was the most memorable in the life of Mikhail Petrovich.
His military awards testify to his valiant service during the Great Patriotic War: the Order of the Red Replacement, the Red Star, two orders of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the medals "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany "and others. But only in 1995, for hoisting the Red Banner over the Reichstag, Mikhail Petrovich Minin was awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin.
Demobilized in the fall of 1946, MP Minin returned to the Palkinsky region. He worked as executive secretary, editor of the district newspaper.
Having received the military rank of "lieutenant" in 1952, he was again drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1959 he graduated with honors from the V.V.Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy. I had to serve in different positions. In 1969, he retired from the ranks of the Armed Forces with the rank of Major Engineer.
Since 1977 he lived in the city of Pskov, took an active part in the military-patriotic education of young people, was more than once a participant in the Victory Parade in Moscow.
About the feat of Mikhail Petrovich Minin
Minin, M.P. Difficult Roads to Victory: Memoirs of a Veteran of the Great Patriotic War / M.P. Minin. - Pskov: Psk. region org.-method. Center for the preparation and publication of Books of Memory, 2001. - 255 p. - Mikhail Petrovich carefully kept in his memory everything that is associated with wartime. And these memories were embodied in his book "Difficult Roads to Victory". It is designed for a wide range of readers, especially those who are interested in the fate of our fellow countrymen, who endured on their shoulders all the hardships that befell them during the Great Patriotic War.
Alekseev, I. And the banner hoisted over the Reichstag / I. Alekseev, A. Grishmanovsky // Pskov truth. - 1980 .-- 4 nov. - S. 2-3. - Pskovich Mikhail Petrovich Minin, who served in the Idritskaya 150th Order of Kutuzov Infantry Division, was an intelligence specialist and an experienced party organizer of the battery. He was one of the first to plant a red flag over the Reichstag.
Rakhmanin D. The last kilometers of the war / D. Rakhmanin // Young Leninist. - 1984 .-- July 21. - From 4-5. - About Mikhail Petrovich Minin - a participant in the storming of the Reichstag.
Morozov, A. Standard-bearers / A. Morozov // Pskov truth. - 1991 .-- May 9. - P. 2. - About the soldiers of the assault group of Captain V. Makov, who planted the Red Banner on the roof of the Reichstag at exactly 22 hours 40 minutes on April 30, 1945.
Ivanov, A. Pskov standard-bearer: Sergeant Minin was the first to hoist the Victory Banner: Sensation half a century later / A. Ivanov // News of Pskov. - 1995 .-- May 9. - S. 5.
Who raised the banner over the Reichstag: An erroneous report for long five decades prevented from naming the names of the true heroes of the night assault // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 1995 .-- June 10. - S. 2.
Klevtsov, V. Hero of a nonexistent power / V. Klevtsov // Evening Pskov. - 1998 .-- Feb 3. - S. 1-2. - Pskovich M.P. Minin stormed the Reichstag. 52 years after the accomplishment of the feat, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Morozov, A. Justice has triumphed / A. Morozov // Pskov truth. - 1998 .-- May 8-9. - S. 2.
Ilyin, B. Time goes by, but feats remain / B. Ilyin // Flax grower. - 1998 .-- Nov. 27. - P. 2. - About Mikhail Petrovich Minin - a participant in the storming of Berlin.
Minin, M. Banner-bearers of Victory / M. Minin // Flax grower. - 1998 .-- Dec 8. - S. 4-5; Dec 11. - S. 6-7. - Memoirs of M. Minin - Pskovich - a participant in the Berlin operation in 1945.
Klevtsov, V. Sturm of the Reichstag ... Who was the first? / V. Klevtsov // Arguments and facts. - 1999. - May (No. 18). - Supp .: Pskov No. 4. - P. 1.3. - About the difficult fate of a native of the village of Vanino, Pskov region, MP Minin, who had the honor to raise the Red Banner over the Reichstag. Memoirs of M.P. Minin.
Klevtsov, V. The last battle of the war / V. Klevtsov // Sterkh. - 2001. - May 9 (No. 19a). - P. 6. - About the group that hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.
Ilin, B. Participant in the storming of the Reichstag / B. Ilyin // Flax vod. - 2002 .-- July 26. - P. 4. - Essay on MP Minin - a participant in the Great Patriotic War.
Gerasimova, T. Heroes who were silent / T. Gerasimova // Ostrovskie vesti. - 2003 .-- June 21. - P. 2. - About the meeting of young soldiers of the garrison of Ostrov-3 with the Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Petrovich Minin, who spoke about his participation in the operation to capture the Reichstag in 1945.
Abrosimov, A. Mikhail Minin: "We did not fight for awards" / A. Abrosimov // Arguments and facts. - 2004. - May (No. 18). - S. 2. - (AiF. -North-West; No. 18).
Artemieva, E. Banners of the Great Victory / E. Artemieva // Pskov truth. - 2005 .-- 23-24 Feb. - S. 1.7. - About one of the groups of Soviet soldiers and officers who planted the Red flags in the Reichstag - a group of M.P. Minin, G.K. Zagitova, A.P. Bobrov, A.F. Lisimenko.
Yaremenko, V. Who Raised the Banner over the Reichstag? / V. Yaremenko // Pskov province i I. - 2005. - May 11-17 (No. 18). - S. 12-13. - About the groups that planted banners on the Reichstag, including the group of Captain V. Makov, which included Sergeant M. Minin.
Pavlova, L. What are the changes leading to? / L. Pavlova // Sterkh. - 2005 .-- June 1 (# 42). - p. 3. - On the petition of the regional deputy. Meetings of P. Nikolaev on conferring the title of Hero of Russia to the participants of the Great Patriotic War, who, under the leadership of Vladimir Makov, set up the first banner at the Reichstag. Among them is Mikhail Minin, who lives in Pskov.
Abrosimov, A. The Last Hero / A. Abrosimov // Panorama. - 2005 .-- July 20. - P. 2. - On the living conditions of Mikhail Petrovich Minin - Hero of the Soviet Union, participant in the establishment of the Victory Banner on the Reichstag. Photo. Lives in the Palkinsky district.
On conferring the title of "Honorary Citizen of the City of Pskov": Resolution [PGD] # 431 of 8.07.2005 // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2005 .-- July 20. - P. 4. - The title of honor awarded to Stanislav Andreevich Menshikov; Minin Mikhail Petrovich; Uger Pavel Yakovlevich.
Dementyev, O. Became honorary citizens / O. Dementyev // News of Pskov. - 2005 .-- July 26. - P. 3. - About the ceremony of conferring the title "Honorary Citizen of the City of Pskov" on July 23, 2005. Photo.
Minin Mikhail Petrovich // Pskov Encyclopedia. 903 - 2007 / Ch. ed. A.I. Lobachev. - Pskov: Pskov Regional Public Institution - Publishing House "Pskov Encyclopedia", 2007. - S. 483-484.
In memory of a comrade // Time is Pskov. - 2008 .-- 11 Jan. - S. 2. - Mikhail Petrovich Minin died (July 29, 1922 - January 10, 2008). Born in the village of Vanino, Palkinsky district.
He hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2008 .-- 11 Jan. - P. 1. - Announcement of the death on January 10, 2008 of Mikhail Petrovich Minin.
In memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2008 .-- 12 Jan. - P. 1. - On January 10, the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Mikhail Petrovich Minin died. He was one of the first to hoist the Victory Banner over the Reichstag on April 30, 1945.
Vasiliev, S. Mikhail Minin - the last standard-bearer / S. Vasiliev // Pskov truth. - 2008 .-- 15 Jan. - S. 1-2. - About the funeral of M.P. Minin was one of the first to establish the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.
Dementyev, O. Honorary Citizen of the World / O. Dementyev // Pskov border. - 2008 .-- 14-20 Jan. - P. 1, 3. - In memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin (07/29/1922-10/01/2008) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War who hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reistag in Berlin (04/30/1945). Photo.
Milka, A. We are all in debt to him ...: our countryman was among those who first broke into the Reichstag [Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Petrovich Minin] / A. Milka // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2009 .-- 13 Jan. (N 2). - S. 2: fot. - About the solemn meeting dedicated to the anniversary of the death of MP Minin.
Are we not Ivans who do not remember kinship? Veterans of labor and military service of the city of Pskov demand from the authorities a worthy perpetuation of the memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin / A. G. Krasnikov [and others] // Pskov province. - 2009 .-- Apr 29 - May 6 (N 16). - P. 14. - With portr.
Pskov region. Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies. Convening (4). Session (29). On the creation of an organizing committee to perpetuate the memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin - Honorary Citizen of the city of Pskov: Resolution [of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies] of 25.06.2009 N 719 // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2009 .-- June 30 (N 123). - S. 9.
On April 30, 1945 at 22.40 Moscow time (Berlin time - at 20.40), the assault group of Captain V. Makov hoisted the Red Banner over the Reichstag. Our fellow countryman Mikhail Petrovich Minin was among the 5 scouts. It was this man with the iconic surname who climbed the sculptural group "The Goddess of Victory" and installed the pole in the crown of the German giantess. And so that the banner would not fall, he tied the staff to the crown with ribbons from a torn handkerchief. There was no mocking disdain for the defeated enemy in these ribbons - it was just that Minin had nothing at hand ...
For a few minutes, while hoisting this flag, he was an excellent target for German snipers, but fate was merciful to him, and he survived.
This happened a few hours before, when Alexey Berest, Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton Kantaria, later recognized as official standard-bearers, planted the assault flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov, II degree of the Idritsa Rifle Division, recognized as the Banner of Victory.
But historically and in memory of descendants, we must know that the first Victory Flag over the Reichstag was raised by the Pskov sergeant Mikhail Petrovich Minin.
He is the first among equals in this kind of triumvirate of Heroes of the Soviet Union - Victory Banners. Right-flank - sergeant M. Minin, then sergeant M. Egorov and sergeant M. Kantaria.
Honor and glory to them!
From the memoirs of Mikhail Petrovich Minin:
"Throughout the day and evening of April 30, Soviet units repeatedly tried to break through the enemy's defenses, but to no avail. We were four hundred meters from the Reichstag in Himmler's house, when on April 30 in the middle of the day we received a message about the presence of order N06 on the 1st Belorussian Front about the capture by Soviet troops of the Reichstag on April 30, 1945 at 2:25 pm In fact, in the afternoon and evening of April 30, there was not a single Soviet soldier in the Reichstag.
On April 30, at 21:30, artillery preparation for the attack began. The assault was carried out at night, when the silhouette of a man was not visible ten meters away. The first soldiers broke into the Reichstag at night, at the beginning of the eleventh hour. The attack was carried out almost blindly, without the support of tanks and escort artillery.
All the attackers tried to get inside the Reichstag faster. V.N. Makov's group, as the most organized unit, was the first to reach the front entrance, with the help of a log with a ramming blow it broke the lock of the front door, and the first to break into the Reichstag. Paving our way with machine-gun fire and grenades, we managed to quickly reach the attic, find a giant cargo winch with a flashlight, use it to climb to the roof and here on April 30, 1945 at 22:40, hoist the first banner, about which V.N. Makov immediately radio reported to the command post to the commander of the 79th corps.
At four o'clock in the morning on May 1, Egorov and Kantaria were brought to the Reichstag with sheathed banners ... ".
It was Mikhail Minin who, in the late evening of April 30, 1945, was the first to hoist the red flag over the Reichstag.
On the cloth, he wrote the names of four of his comrades.
In the last days of the war, the center of Berlin was stormed by 9 divisions - and each had a banner that could have been over the defeated Reichstag. But the first to break into the building were the soldiers of the assault group of Captain Makov - Sergeants Zagitov, Bobrov, Lisimenko and Minin. However, the history textbooks included the names of other Soviet soldiers - Yegorov and Kantaria.
from left to right: M.P. Minin, G.K. Zagitov, A.P. Bobrov, A.F. Lisimenko.
May 1, 1945 morning.
For the feat on April 30, 1945, the group, which included Mikhail Minin, was presented by the command of the 136th artillery brigade to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but received other awards - the Order of the Red Banner.
"In the nineties about Mikhail Petrovich Minin, his feat, as well as the fact that the entire group of Captain Makov was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but never received stars, few heard. He himself did not tell everyone about this, making sure that any of his stories was perceived with a mixed feeling of distrust and awkwardness, because everyone knew from school that the first Banners of Victory were Yegorov and Kantaria (they visited the Reichstag only a few hours later), and the appearance of new heroes somehow did not fit into the general Minin was acutely worried about injustice towards himself and his military friends, and they passed away one after another ...
He traveled to Moscow, wrote to the Ministry of Defense, to the Institute of Military History, to newspapers, trying to raise the issue of restoring the real picture of the storming of the Reichstag. And he was not alone. The Leningrad organization of veterans-fellow soldiers petitioned for the assignment of the title of Hero to the scouts, only now, not of the Soviet Union, but of Russia. The petition was supported by the Institute of Military History, which confirmed that "... on the basis of archival documents, it was established that Captain Makov's group was the first to hoist the Red Banner on the Reichstag building." The veterans never became heroes of the Russian Federation. The petition was rejected in 1994. But this story had an unexpected continuation. Mikhail Petrovich nevertheless received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but not from the new authorities, but from the then already dissolved Supreme Soviet of the USSR, headed by Sazha Umalatova.
For the old soldier it was a joyful holiday, but also bitter, which he was convinced of when he came to the military enlistment office with an award list. “What are you, dad?” They said to him. “What Hero of the Soviet Union? There is no such country anymore ...” (from V. Klevtsov's article “Our Minin ...” (Pskov province, 2010, January 14).
It took 52 years to "prove" his feat before Soviet and Russian officials, counting from 1945!
Mikhail Petrovich Minin was a modest, sympathetic and very decent person. Laconic. But if he promises, he will always do it. He never showed resentment against the state, which attributed his feat to other people.
MP Minin wrote a book of memoirs about the war "Difficult Years to Victory", which was published in 2001.
Minin, M.P. Difficult Roads to Victory: Memoirs of a Veteran of the Great Patriotic War / Mikhail Minin. - Pskov, 2001 .-- 255p.
The experience of the war formed the basis of his memoirs, which he wrote for many years, hoping that someday they will be published. And so the book by Mikhail Petrovich Minin "Difficult Roads to Victory" was published. It is designed for a wide range of readers, especially those who are interested in the fate of our fellow countrymen, who endured on their shoulders all the hardships that befell them during the Great Patriotic War. In the book, he tells in detail, on the basis of available archival documents, research by historians, and his own memoirs, how the events of April 30, 1945 developed.
“Well, now, I have done my job to the end,” he said, referring to his book. And he was proud that he had managed to mention, to tell in the book about all those close, dear to his heart, people who had already passed away, confident that the written, printed word would not leave their names in oblivion now.
(1922-2008)
veteran of the Great Patriotic War, honorary citizen of Pskov.
He was one of the first to hoist the Red Banner over the Reichstag building in Berlin as part of an assault group under the command of Captain V.N.Makov.
Mikhail Petrovich Minin was born on July 29, 1922 in the village of Vanino, Palkinsky District. He joined peasant labor early, helped his mother who worked as a vegetable-growing brigade of the collective farm. He studied at the Novo-Usitovskaya school, after which he entered one of the Leningrad technical schools.
On June 30, 1941, he volunteered for the people's militia. He liberated the Pskov region: he fought in the regions of Velikiye Luki, Nevel, Pustoshka, then on the territory of Latvia, Poland and Germany. He participated in the storming of the Reichstag, was one of the first to hoist the Red Banner over the Reichstag. This was the group of V. N. Makov, it also included G. K. Zagitov, A. P. Bobrov, A. F. Lisimenko.
Demobilized in the fall of 1946. He returned to the Palkinsky region, worked as executive secretary, editor of the regional newspaper.
In 1952 he was awarded the military rank of lieutenant, again drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1959 he graduated from the Military Engineering Academy. V.V. Kuibyshev. In 1969 he retired from the army with the rank of major engineer.
In 1999, at the invitation of the BBC and with the mediation of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (head of the Center for Military History G. A. Kumanev) took part in the filming of a film dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
In 2000 he took part in the Victory Parade dedicated to the 55th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
He was awarded the Medal "For Military Merit" (09/11/1942), the Order of the Patriotic War II degree (09/18/1944), the Order of the Red Banner (05/18/1945), the Order of the Red Star (06/14/1945), the medals "For the Liberation of Warsaw", " For the capture of Berlin "," For the Victory over Germany "and others. He is an Honorary Citizen of the city of Pskov.
In 2010, on the day of the 65th anniversary of the hoisting of the Red Flag over the Reichstag at the grave of M.P. Minin, a memorial was officially opened, the construction of which was initiated by veterans of labor and military service in Pskov. Great help and support in the construction of this memorial was provided by the deputies of the Pskov Regional Assembly, primarily the Chairman of the Assembly B. G. Polozov and the deputy V. N. Yanikov, as well as the editorial board of the newspaper "Pskov province", which published materials on this issue.
Minin, M.P. Difficult roads to victory: memoirs of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. - Pskov: Pskov. region org.-method. center for the preparation and publication of Books of Memory, 2001. - 255 p .: ill.
Pskov. Pskov City Duma. Convening (4). Session (50). On the installation of a memorial plaque to Mikhail Petrovich Minin: the decision of the [Pskov City Duma] N 999 dated 19.11.2009 // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2009 .-- Dec 8. (N 240-241). - S. 10.
Pskov region. Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies. Convening (4). Session (29). On the creation of an organizing committee to perpetuate the memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin - Honorary Citizen of the city of Pskov: resolution [of the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies] of 25.06.2009 N 719 // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2009 .-- June 30 (N 123). - S. 9.
About conferring the title "Honorary Citizen of the city of Pskov" : Resolution of the [Pskov City Duma] N 431 dated July 8, 2005 // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2005 .-- July 20. - S. 4.
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As part of the patriotic citywide action "Victory Standard Bearer", a memorial sign was unveiled at the grave of the Honorary Citizen of Pskov MP Minin (sculptor V. Chernenko)
At the grave of the Honorary Citizen of Pskov, Mikhail Minin, a memorial sign with a bronze bas-relief of the hero, made by the sculptor V. Chernenko, was solemnly unveiled.
It is not the fallen who need it, the living need it!// Pskov truth. - 2010 .-- May 6 (N 94-95). - S. 4.
Letter from the Council of Veterans of Idritsa with a request to remove inaccuracies in the articles about hoisting the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.
The memorial at the grave of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Honorary Citizen of the city of Pskov Mikhail Minin was solemnly opened on April 30 at the cemetery in Orletsy / PLN // Pskov province. - 2010 .-- May 5-11 (N 17). - S. 12.
A memorial sign was solemnly unveiled at the grave of Mikhail Petrovich Minin, an Honorary Citizen of Pskov, who was the first to hoist the Red Banner of Victory over the Reichstag. The opening was attended by the Head of the city of Pskov Ivan Tsetsersky, the Head of the Administration of the city of Pskov Yan Luzin, the speaker of the Regional Assembly of Deputies Boris Polozov and others.
Zlobinskaya, T. Hero with a banner in his hands / T. Zlobinskaya // Pskov truth. - 2010 .-- Apr 30. (N 96-97). - S. 3.
In memory of the Victory Banner: the country remembers Pskov, Sergeant Mikhail Petrovich Minin // Pskov province. - 2011 .-- Apr 27 - May 3 (N 16).
“Such an event in Russia can only be held in Pskov! ":pskov veterans of the Armed Forces and labor demand from the authorities to adequately open a memorial at the grave of the first Victory standard-bearer Mikhail Minin: [to the governor of the Pskov region A. Turchak] / a group of labor and military service veterans of the city of Pskov // Pskov province. - 2010 .-- Apr 7-13. (No. 13). - S. 3: fot.
For the first time in Pskov, within the framework of the "Historical Memory" project, the "Victory Banner Bearer" action is launched, dedicated to the memory of the Great Patriotic War veteran MP Minin.
Klevtsov, V. Our Minin ... / V. Klevtsov // Pskov province. - 2010 .-- Jan. 14. (No. 1). - S. 6.
In Pskov, a rally was held in memory of the grave of the Honorary Citizen of the city of Pskov, who hoisted the Victory Banner on the Reichstag building in Berlin, veteran of the Great Patriotic War Mikhail Petrovich Minin.
Are we not Ivans who do not remember kinship?Veterans of labor and military service of Pskov demand from the authorities a worthy perpetuation of the memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin / A. G. Krasnikov [and others] // Pskov province. - 2009 .-- Apr 29 - May 6 (N 16). - P. 14: portr.
"Disappointment and shame ..." : Pskov veterans are outraged by the attitude of the Pskov authorities to the grave and memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin, who hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag / GI Astakhov [and others]; [open letter to the President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev] // Pskov province. - 2009 .-- 21-27 Jan. (N 2). - S. 5, 13.
Milka, A. We are all in debt to him ...: our fellow countryman was among those who first broke into the Reichstag / A. Milka // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2009 .-- 13 Jan. (N 2). - S. 2: fot.
On the solemn meeting dedicated to the anniversary of the death of MP Minin.
Dementyev, O. Honorary Citizen of the World / O. Dementyev // Pskov border. - 2008 .-- 14-20 Jan. - S. 1, 3.
In memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin (07/29/1922-10.01.2008) - a participant in the Great Patriotic War, who hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin (04/30/1945).
Vasiliev, S. Mikhail Minin - the last standard-bearer / S. Vasiliev // Pskov truth. - 2008 .-- 15 Jan. - S. 1-2.
About the funeral of M.P. Minin - one of the first to establish the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.
On January 10, World War II veteran Mikhail Petrovich Minin died. He was one of the first to hoist the Victory Banner over the Reichstag on April 30, 1945.
He hoisted the Victory Banner over the Reichstag// Pskov truth. - 2008 .-- 11 Jan. - S. 1.
Mikhail Petrovich Minin died (July 29, 1922 - January 10, 2008). Born in the village of Vanino, Palkinsky district.
Dementyev, O. We became honorary citizens / O. Dementyev // News of Pskov. - 2005 .-- July 26. - S. 3: photo.
Abrosimov, A. The Last Hero / A. Abrosimov // Panorama. - 2005 .-- July 20. - S. 2: photo.
Pavlova, L. Where are the changes leading? / L. Pavlova // Sterkh (Pskov). - 2005 .-- June 1 (# 42). - S. 3.
On the petition of P. Nikolaev, a deputy of the POSD, to award the title of Hero of Russia to the participants of the Great Patriotic War, who, under the leadership of Vladimir Makov, installed the first banner on the Reichstag. Among them is Mikhail Minin, who lives in Pskov.
Gradov, A. Victory Banner: verses / A. Gradov // Pechorskaya Pravda. - 2005 .-- May 6. - p. 1
Artemieva, E. Banners of the Great Victory / E. Artemyeva // Pskov truth. - 2005 .-- 23-24 Feb. - S. 1, 7.
About one of the groups of Soviet soldiers and officers who planted the Red flags at the Reichstag: MP Minin, GK Zagitov, AP Bobrov, AF Lisimenko.
Abrosimov, A. Mikhail Minin: "We did not fight for awards" / Abrosimov Alexander // Arguments and facts. - 2004. - May (No. 18). - S. 2. (AiF. North-West; No. 18).
Ilyin, B. Participant in the storming of the Reichstag / B. Ilyin // Flax vod (Palkinsky district). - 2002 .-- July 26. - S. 4, 5: photo.
Klevtsov, V. Victory battle of the war / V. Klevtsov // Sterkh (Pskov). - 2001 .-- May 9 (N 19A). - S. 8.
Khalilulaev, B. The exploits of the veterans brought Palkino and Khasavyurt closer together: a letter from the city of Khasavyurt from local historians-pathfinders of the pedagogical college / B. Khalilulaev // Lnovod (Palkinsky district). - 2000 .-- May 6. - S. 4.
Ilyin, B. The second meeting with the Reichstag / B. Ilyin // Flax vod (Palkinsky district). - 1999 .-- June 11. - S. 4-5.
Klevtsov, V. The storming of the Reichstag ... Who was the first? / V. Klevtsov // Arguments and facts. - 1999. - May (N 18). - S. 1, 3 (Pskov; N 4).
About the difficult fate of a native of the village of Vanino, Pskov region. MP Minin, who had the honor to raise the Red Banner over the Reichstag. Memories are given.
Minin, M. Banner-bearers of Victory: [memories] / M. Minin // Flax grower (Palkinsky district). - 1998 .-- 8, 11 Dec.
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Klevtsov, V. Hero of a nonexistent power / V. Klevtsov // Evening Pskov. - 1998 .-- Feb 3
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Hero of the Soviet Union, Honorary Citizen of Pskov,
participant of the Great Patriotic War
Mikhail Petrovich Minin was born on July 29, 1922 in the village of Vanino, Palkinsky District, Pskov Region, into a peasant family. He graduated from 7 classes of the Novo-Usitovskaya incomplete secondary school also in the Palkinsky district. In 1938 he entered the Leningrad technical school, studied excellently, but in connection with the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War on July 30, 1941, he voluntarily enlisted in the people's militia, and then was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, where he immediately entered into battle with the troops of Nazi Germany. He liberated the settlements of the Pskov region: Velikiye Luki, Nevel, Pustoshka and others. Then he fought in the territory of Latvia, Poland and Germany. He took part in the battles in Berlin, in the storming of the Reichstag, in hoisting the red Banner over this citadel of fascism, for which he was nominated for the Order of Lenin and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, which was awarded only after the collapse of the USSR - on May 27, 1997.
By decree of the Presidium of the Council of People's Deputies of the USSR. He was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Great Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star, and the Medal for Military Merit. After demobilization in the fall of 1946, he arrived in the Palkinsky region. He worked there as executive secretary and editor of the district newspaper. In 1952 he was again called up to serve in the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1959 he graduated from the Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy and served until 1969 in various positions in the USSR Armed Forces.
Resigned from the ranks of the Soviet Army in 1977. Since 1977, Mikhail Petrovich lived in the city of Pskov, took an active part in the military-patriotic education of young people, was more than once a participant in the Victory Parade in Moscow. MP Minin wrote a book of memoirs about the war "Difficult Years to Victory", which was published in 2001.
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Klevtsov, V. Sturm of the Reichstag ... Who was the first? : [The honor of being the first to raise the Red Banner over the Reichstag went to a native of the village. Vanino, Pskov region Mikhail Petrovich Minin] / V. Klevtsov // AiF. - 1999. - No. 18 (May). - (Pskov, No. 4, p. 1, 2).
Bogdanova, N. To restore historical justice: [M.P. Minin, one of the first to hoist a flag over the Reichstag, received a copy of the Victory Banner] / N. Bogdanov // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2007 .-- 25 Sept. - S. 1.
In memory of Mikhail Petrovich Minin: obituary / M.V. Kuznetsov, B.G. Polozov // Pskovskaya Pravda. - 2008 .-- 12 Jan. - S. 1.
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Levin, N.F., Rusanova, L.F. Serving Pskov: Honorary Citizens of Pskov: (biobibliographic collection) / N.F. Levin, L.F. Rusanova. - Pskov: Publishing house ANO LOGOS, 2008. - pp. 106 - 107: fot. - (To the 1105th anniversary of the first mention of Pskov in the annals).
Bearer of Victory
Our Minin - Bearer of Victory
May 7, 2010 at the house number 48 on Novoselov street, where MP Minin lived
in Pskov, a memorial plaque was installed.