Iosif Adamovich

Iosif Adamovich (Belarusian: Язэп Адамовіч, 7 January 1897 in Babruysk 22 April 1937 in Minsk) was a Belarusian communist politician. He served as a Prime Minister of the Belarusian People's Republic from 1924 to 1927. In 1916, he was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, where he was organised the Belarusian bolshevik. He was born in Babruysk and moved to Tbilisi in Georgia.

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. On 22 April 1937, he committed suicide in Minsk, aged 40.[1]

Notes

  1. Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman: Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2016. p. 8-9.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Alexander Chervyakov
Prime Minister of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
1924–1927
Succeeded by
Nikolay Goloded
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