Soviet political commissar Yefim Fomin's (1909-1941) memorial relief on the left side of the Kholm Gate at the Brest Fortress in Brest, Belarus
Yefim Moiseevich Fomin (15 January 1909 - 26 June 1941), was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, during which the German Army captured and immediately executed him. Fomin was born into a Jewish family in Kolyshki in Vitebsk Governorate (present-day Liozna Raion, Belarus) in 1909. He lost his parents as a young boy and was raised in orphanages. In 1924, Fomin joined the Komsomol, at the age of 15. He worked at a shoe factory in Vitebsk and then moved to Pskov. There, he was sent to the Communist Party school to prepare for a career as a professional party worker. In 1930, at age of 21, while at the party school, Fomin became a member of the Soviet Communist Party. When he returned from the school, he was assigned to be a propagandist of the Pskov City Committee of the Communist Party.
Size: 3840px × 5760px
Location: Kholm Gate, Brest Fortress, Brest, Belarus
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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