ivan groshchenkov was called up for military service as a far from eighteen-year-old boy; he left ther of a school and was a married man, served in the brest fortress. the junior political instructor died in the first hours of the war. and his relatives for a long time did not know where and how their son, brother and husband died. the starting point in establishing the fate of the fortress defender ivan groshchenkov was a photograph taken in the army club before the war. it came to the museum in 1985, and from the caption to the photograph it became clear that one of the two fighters was the same ivan groshchankov. at the museum, the photo was given by the sister of a fellow soldier , private viliy yakovlev. a few days before the start of the war, he... or reproduce themselves in such a way that they are gods on earth, that they simply lived. at the very beginning of the hostilities, during this attempt to leave the fortress, together with our commander, captain yakov dmitrievich minakov, deputy political adviser ivan petrovich greshchenkov died. he died in the first minutes of the w