Boris Pozern

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.

Boris Pozern
Борис Позерн
Mayor of Minsk
In office March 1917 – July 1917
Preceded by	Vladimir Drutskoy-Sokolninsky
Succeeded by	Isidor Lyubimov
Personal details
Born	(1882-07-07)7 July 1882 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian Federation)
Died	25 February 1939(1939-02-25) (aged 56) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Political party	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Other political affiliations	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1903–1917)

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.