Background
ADAMOVICH, Iosif was born on January 7, 1897 in Minsk. Son of a worker
ADAMOVICH, Iosif was born on January 7, 1897 in Minsk. Son of a worker
1908 graduate parish school in Novoborisovo. 1922-1923 studied at Moscow Military Academy.
1908-1915 factory worker 1915-1917 in Russian Army on Northwestern Front. Late 1917 secretary, Borisovo Soviet.
1918 commander, 1st Smolensk Battery and uyezd (later province) military comissar. 1918-1919 in charge of quelling anti-Soviet revolts in Smolensk, Vitebsk, Mogilyov, Chernigov and Minsk Provinces. From July 1920 member, three-man Belorussian Military-Revol Committee, military comissar and garrison commander, Minsk Province.
Late 1920 Belorussian People's Commissar of Military Affairs and deputy chairman, Belorussian Central Executive Committee. 1922 Belorussian People's Commissar of Interior and deputy chairman, Belorussian Central Executive Committee. 1923-1927 chairman, Belorussian Council of People's Commissar.
Support for Belorussian national and cultural renaissance brought him into conflict with A. Krinitskiy, first secretary, Central Committee, Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Belorussian, as a result of which in mid-1927 he was removed from all his posts and exiled to a sovkhoz in Ukraine. Subsequently called to Moscow to direct sugar trust. 1932 exiled to Far East as director, sugar refinery in Voroshilov (now Ussuriysk).
Later fishery director on Kamchatka. 1937 arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs.
Communist Party member from 1918.