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Boris Pozern | |
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Борис Позерн | |
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| Mayor of Minsk | |
| In office March 1917 – July 1917 | |
| Preceded by | Vladimir Drutskoy-Sokolninsky |
| Succeeded by | Isidor Lyubimov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 July 1882 |
| Died | 25 February 1939 (aged 56) |
| Party | All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) |
Other political affiliations | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1903–1917) |
Boris Pavlovich Pozern (Russian: Бори́с Па́влович По́зерн; 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 noble family of a doctor 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.
