political instructor lavrenty makarenko served in the thirty-third separate engineering regiment.e of the defensive barracks, where today the museum of the defense of the brest fortress is located. his family, his wife alexandra and three sons 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 their father did not know. and he met the war in the fortress and managed to, well, break through. to his soldiers and unit, he was an active participant in the defense; according to the recollections of those who were next to him, already on june 26, one of the shells exploded in the barracks itself. political instructor was seriously wounded in the head and died a few hours later. for many decades, the date of death of lavrenty makarenko was unknown for his family, just as the place of his death remained unknown, because he could have been captured, and after the war in the fortress... there was a pioneer camp in which the children of political instructor makarenko were located, they lived in surviving cozimates. it w