Nikolay Matveyevich Goloded; russian: Никола́й Матве́евич Голоде́д (21 May 1894 – 21 June 1937) was a

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

ian

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statesman and first secretary of the

Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; be, Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка, Bielaruskaja Savieckaja Sacyjalistyčnaja Respublika; russian: Белор� ...

from December 1925 to May 1927. He served as a Prime Minister of the

from 1927 to 30 May 1937.

Biography

Goloded was born into a family of Belarusian peasants, and graduated from the Byelorussian Agricultural Institute. After working in various professions he became involved in the revolutionary movement and joined the

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

in 1917 and was involved in the Southwestern Front. From 1921 to 1924 he was secretary of the

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Regional Committee and in 1924 became a member of the Provisional Bureau of the Communist Party of Byelorussia and later on its second secretary from 1924 to 1927. From 1927 to 1937 he was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the

. He was arrested on 14 June 1937 during the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

and jumped out of the window 5th floor of the Belarusian

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

building to his death during his NKVD interrogation.

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1894 births 1937 suicides People from Bryansk Oblast People from Chernigov Governorate Bolsheviks Heads of the Communist Party of Byelorussia Great Purge victims from Russia Suicides by jumping in Belarus Soviet rehabilitations {{Belarus-politician-stub