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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)

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.

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.

• 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)

• Anatoly Rybakov: Jahre des Terrors. Deutsch von Juri Elperin. 440 pages. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv 11590), Munich, 1992, ISBN 3-423-11590-4
• Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and Soviet Union 1898 - 1991 (in Russian)
• Article title^[usurped] (in Russian)
• http://www.az-libr.ru/index.htm?Persons&FE7/c188733b/index (in Russian)
• Позерн Борис Павлович (in Russian). ХРОНОС: ВСЕМИРНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ В ИНТЕРНЕТЕ. Retrieved 2015-08-31.

• WorldCat Entry
• Entry on hrono.ru (in Russian)
• Entry in the 1959 Great Soviet Encyclopedia, provided by dic.academic.ru (in Russian)
• Entry in az-libr.ru (in Russian)
• Entry in the Russian-European Encyclopedia (in Russian)