Yefim Moiseevich Fomin (Russian: Ефим Моисеевич Фомин), (15 January 1909 – 30 June 1941), was a Soviet political commissar. He is known for his part in the 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress, at the end of 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.
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