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]
Notes
- ^ Большая биографическая энциклопедия
- ^ U Arloǔ. The Names of Freedom. У Арлоў. Імёны свабоды. pp 146-147
- ^ 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
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