Yefim Fomin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yefim Fomin

Soviet political commissar

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1909

Place of Birth: Kalyshki, Belarus

Date of Death: 26-Jun-1941

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Yefim Moiseevich Fomin (Russian: ???? ????????? ?????), (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.