Nikolay Goloded

statesman and first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR

21 May 1894 Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire

21 June 1937(1937-06-21) (43) Minsk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union

7 May 1927 – 30 May 1937

Nikolay Matveyevich Goloded, (Mikalaj Haladzied) (Belarusian: Мікала́й Мацьве́евіч Галадзе́д ; Russian: Никола́й Матве́евич Голоде́д ; March 1894 – 1937) was a Belarusian Soviet statesman and first secretary of the Byelorussian SSR from December 1925 to May 1927. He served as a Prime Minister of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1927 to May 30, 1937. Biography Born in to the family of Belorusian peasant family, he 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) in 1917 and was involved in the Southwestern Front. From 1921 to 1924 he was secretary of the Gorki 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 Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. He was arrested on June 14, 1937 during the Great Purge and jumped out of the window 5th floor of the Belarussian NKVD building to his death during his NKVD interrogation.