Meliton Varlamis dze Kantaria or Kantariya (, ) (5 October 1920 in Jvari, Georgia – 27 December 1993 in Moscow), Hero of the Soviet Union (8 May 1946), was a Georgian sergeant of the Soviet Army credited to have together with M. A. Yegorov and Oleksiy Berest hoisted a Soviet flag "Banner of Victory" over the Reichstag on April 30, 1945.