page_title: Yefim Fomin
section_title: Posthumous honours
hierarchical_section_title: Yefim Fomin / Posthumous honours
caption_attribution_description: Memorial plaque in honor of Yevim Moiseevich Fomin defenfer of Brest Fortress
context_page_description: Yefim Moiseevich Fomin, 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 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.
context_section_description: In January 1957, Fomin was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin for his role in the defense of the Brest Fortress.  In May 1991, at a reunion of veterans of the 6th Rifle Division, Fomin's demotion to regimental commissar was posthumously revoked and he was restored to the rank of divisional commissar.
caption: Fomin's memorial relief on the left side of the outside facade of the Kholm Gate in the Brest Fortress.
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