Iosif Adamovich

Iosif Alexandrovich Adamovich ( (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. 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.

On 22 April 1937, he killed himself in Minsk, aged 40.

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Further reading

W. Roszkowski, J. Kofman (red.), Słownik biograficzny Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej XX wieku, Warszawa 2005, E. Mironowicz, Białoruś, Wyd. Trio, Warszawa 2007,

1897 births

1937 suicides

People from Barysaw

People from Borisovsky Uyezd

Old Bolsheviks

Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members

Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia

Heads of government of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

Frunze Military Academy alumni

Russian military personnel of World War I

Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War

Soviet politicians who committed suicide

Belarusian politicians who committed suicide

Suicides in the Soviet Union

1937 deaths