Iosif Adamovich

Iosif Alexandrovich Adamovich (Belarusian: Язэп Адамовіч (Jazep Adamovič), 7 January 1897,Barysaw – 22 April 1937, Minsk) was a Belarusian communist politician. 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 Bolshevik. He was born in Babruysk and moved to Tbilisi in Georgia.

Iosif Adamovich
Prime Minister of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 17 March 1924 – 7 May 1927
Preceded by	Alexander Chervyakov
Succeeded by	Nikolay Goloded
Personal details
Born	7 January 1897
Died	22 April 1937 (aged 40)
Political party	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1916–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1937)

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.[2]

Notes

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

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