political instructor lavrenty makarenko served in the thirty-third separate engineering regiment.he site of the defensive barracks, where today the museum of the defense of the brest fortress is located. his family is his wife alexandra and three sons they ended up in a camp, they were going to be sent to work in germany, but in some incredible way they managed to escape, which my father and i didn’t know. and he met the war in the fortress and managed, well, to break through to his fighters, unit, and was an active participant in the defense. and according to the recollections of those who were next to him, already on june 26, one of the shells exploded. in the barracks itself. the political instructor was seriously wounded in the head and died a few hours later. for many decades, the date of death of lavrenty makarenka was unknown to his family, as unknown the place of his death remained, because he could have been captured, and after the war a pioneer camp operated in the fortress, in which the children of political instructor makarenko were located and lived in the surviving k