Iosif Adamovich
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17 March 1924 – 7 May 1927
Barysaw, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire
Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)
Iosif Alexandrovich Adamovich (Belarusian: Язэп Адамовіч (Jazep Adamovič), 7 January 1897,Barysaw – 22 April 1937, Minsk) was a Belarusian Soviet politician and statesman. He was born in 1897 in Barysaw, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire, in a working-class family of Belarusian ethnicity.[1] He served as a Prime Minister of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1924 to 1927. In 1916, he was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, where he was organised the Belarusian Bolsheviks.
In 1920, he was commissioner of military affairs of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1924 to 1927, he was the Prime Minister of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He was instrumental in the enlargement of the territory of Soviet Belarus in 1924 and 1926.[2]
On 22 April 1937, he killed himself in Minsk, aged 40.[3]
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Further reading
- W. Roszkowski, J. Kofman (red.), Słownik biograficzny Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej XX wieku, Warszawa 2005, ISBN 83-7399-084-4
- E. Mironowicz, Białoruś, Wyd. Trio, Warszawa 2007, ISBN 978-83-7436-119-4
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Preceded by | Prime Minister of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 1924–1927 | Succeeded by |
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- Alexander Chervyakov
- Iosif Adamovich
- Nikolay Goloded
- Daniil Volkovich
- Afanasy Kovalyov
- Kuzma Kiselyov
- Ivan Bylinsky
- Panteleimon Ponomarenko
- Aleksey Kleshchev
- Kirill Mazurov
- Nikolai Avkhimovich
- Tikhon Kiselyov
- Aleksandr Aksyonov
- Vladimir Brovikov
- Mikhail Kovalyov
- Vyacheslav Kebich