Boris Pozern Explained

Boris Pozern
Native Name Lang:ru
Office:Mayor of Minsk
Term Start:March 1917
Term End:July 1917
Predecessor:Vladimir Drutskoy-Sokolninsky
Successor:Isidor Lyubimov
Birth Date:7 July 1882
Birth Place:Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian Federation)
Death Place:Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Party:All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Otherparty:Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1903–1917)

Boris Pavlovich Pozern (Russian: Борис Павлович Позерн; 7 July 1882 – 25 February 1939) was a Soviet politician, party official and member of the Troika of the NKVD of the Soviet Union.

Pozerb was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a family of German origin. He became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903. After the February Revolution, Pozern became the head of the Minsk Soviet.

A member of the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918. He was a member of the Central Committee of the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). During the Great Purge, he was arrested on 9 July 1938 and later executed by firing squad in Moscow. After the death of Joseph Stalin, he was rehabilitated in 1957.

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