Iosif Vareikis

Iosif Vareikis
Ио́сиф Варе́йкис
First Secretary of the Far Eastern Regional Committee the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
15 January 1937 – 3 October 1937
Preceded byLavrenty Kartvelishvili
Succeeded byGeorgy Stasevich
First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
In office
20 March 1935 – 22 December 1936
Preceded byVladimir Ptukha
Succeeded byBoris Semyonov
Personal details
Born18 October 1894
Ukmergė County, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died28 July 1938(1938-07-28) (aged 43)
Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Buried
Political partyRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (1913–1918)
All-Union Communist Party (b) (1918–1937)
AwardsOrder of Lenin

Iosif Mikhailovich Vareikis (Russian: Ио́сиф (Юозас) Миха́йлович Варе́йкис, romanizedIosif (Yuozas) Mikhaylovich Vareykis; Lithuanian: Juozas Vareikis; 18 October 1894 – 28 July 1938) was a Soviet Lithuanian politician and Communist Party official.