{{short description|Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician (1882–1939)}} {{Family name hatnote|Pavlovich|Pozern|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{no footnotes|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Boris Pozern | native_name = {{nobold|Борис Позерн}} | native_name_lang = ru | image = Boris Pozern.jpg | office = Mayor of Minsk | term_start = March 1917 | term_end = July 1917 | predecessor = Vladimir Drutskoy-Sokolninsky | successor = Isidor Lyubimov | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|7|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian Federation) | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|2|25|1882|7|7|df=yes}} | death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) | party = All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) | other_party = Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1903–1917) }}
'''Boris Pavlovich Pozern''' ({{langx|ru|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.
==Works== * ''Оппозиция на XV партконференции'' (''Opposition at the 15th Party Conference'') * Leningrad, 1925: Pozern et. al.: ''Коммунистическая партия и крестьянство'' (''The Communist Party and the Peasantry'') * Moscow and Leningrad, 1928: ''Как оппозиция обороняет СССР'' (''How Opposition Defends the U.S.S.R.'') * Leningrad, 1931: ''Новые задачи и новые условия работы инженерно-технических работников'' (''New Tasks and New Working Conditions for Engineers and Technicians'')
== Bibliography == * Anatoly Rybakov: ''Jahre des Terrors. Deutsch von Juri Elperin.'' 440 pages. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv 11590), Munich, 1992, {{ISBN|3-423-11590-4}} * [http://www.knowbysight.info/PPP/05544.asp Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and Soviet Union 1898 - 1991 (in Russian)] * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140626100549/http://pomnipro.ru/memorypage6375/biography Article title]}} (in Russian) * http://www.az-libr.ru/index.htm?Persons&FE7/c188733b/index (in Russian) * {{cite web|script-title=ru:Позерн Борис Павлович|url=http://www.hrono.ru/biograf/bio_p/pozern_bp.php|agency=ХРОНОС: ВСЕМИРНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ В ИНТЕРНЕТЕ|access-date=2015-08-31|language=ru}}
==External links== * WorldCat [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31311596 Entry] * [http://hrono.ru/biograf/bio_p/putna_vk.php Entry] on hrono.ru {{in lang|ru}} * [http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/bse/125149/%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0 Entry] in the 1959 Great Soviet Encyclopedia, provided by dic.academic.ru {{in lang|ru}} * [http://www.az-libr.ru/index.htm?Persons&70B/b6310cc5/0001/c188733b Entry in az-libr.ru] {{in lang|ru}} * [http://www.rujen.ru/index.php/%D0%9F%D0%9E%D0%97%D0%95%D0%A0%D0%9D_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Entry] in the Russian-European Encyclopedia {{in lang|ru}}
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