Background
Juozas (Joseph) Mikhailovich Vareikis was born on October 18, 1894 Lithuania.
Juozas (Joseph) Mikhailovich Vareikis was born on October 18, 1894 Lithuania.
He graduated from the lower industrial school in the city of Podolsk in the Moscow province (now Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation).
Until 1917 worked as a turner at factories in the Moscow province. Since 1913 Juozas (Joseph) Mikhailovich was a revolutionary.
In 1918-1920 worked as the secretary of the Kharkov Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), the People's Commissar for Social Security of the Donetsko-Krivorozhskaya Republic, the chairman of the Simbirsk Gubernatorial Committee of the Russian Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), a member of the Revolutionary Military Council, and the extraordinary commandant of the defense of Simbirsk.
Since 1921 he was the Deputy Chairman of the Baku Council and member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan. Since 1923 - Secretary of the Kiev Provincial Committee of the Russian Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), Secretary of the Central Asian Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks). Since 1924 - head of the press department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), editor of the magazines " Molodaya Gvardiya" and "Krasnaya Pechat''.
Since 1926 - Secretary of the Saratov Provincial Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks). Since 1928 he worked as the secretary of the regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks) of the Centralno-Chernozemniy region, since 1934 - the first secretary of the Voronezh regional committee of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks).
He played a major role in implementing the policy of industrialization of industry and collectivization of agriculture in the Centralno-Chernozemniy region. Since 1935 he was the first secretary of Stalingradskiy, since 1937 - the first secretary of the Dalnevostochniy regional committees of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), delegate of X-XVII Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (the Bolsheviks), the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
