Iosif Alexandrovich Adamovich (; ; 7 January 1897 – 22 April 1937) was a Belarusian Soviet politician and statesman.
Biography He was born in 1897 in Barysaw, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire, in a working-class family of Belarusian ethnicity.Большая биографическая энциклопедия 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.U Arloǔ. The Names of Freedom. У Арлоў. Імёны свабоды. pp 146–147
On 22 April 1937, he reportedly killed himself in Minsk, aged 40.Wojciech Roszkowski, Jan Kofman: Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge, 2016. p. 8–9.
References
Further reading W. Roszkowski, J. Kofman (red.), Słownik biograficzny Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej XX wieku, Warsaw 2005, E. Mironowicz, Białoruś, Wyd. Trio, Warsaw 2007, Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union