Lyubovich, Artemy Moiseevich

The son of a construction foreman (tradesman). In 1894 he graduated from the two-year city school in Zhitomir.

• 1896 - 1902 - telegraph operator in Zhitomir, then in Kiev .
• 1902 - 1906 - Private telegraph operator of the 2nd spark company.
• 1906 - 1914 - Telegraph operator in Kiev, then in Berdichev (since 1908 ) and the White Church (since 1912 ).
• 1914 - 1917 - mobilized in the army: he served as an ordinary soldier of the 6th railway battalion, then as a telegraph operator of the Kronstadt telegraph company.
• In 1917, he was a member of the Kronstadt Committee of the RSDLP (b), chairman of the Council of Soldiers 'and Sailors' Deputies, a delegate to the VII (April) All-Russian Conference and VI and VII Congresses of the RCP (b) , a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee at the Main Telegraph and commissar of the Kexholm Reserve Regiment. After the October Revolution, the editor of the newspaper Izvestia of the Kronstadt Council, then a member of the board of the People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs and deputy People’s Commissar.
• January - May 1918 - Chairman of the Kronstadt Committee of the RSDLP (b).
• 1918 - 1919 - Chairman of the All-Russian Union of Communications Workers.
• 1919 - 1920 - Deputy People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR and Head of the Office of Communications of the Red Army .
• 1920 - 1921 - Acting People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR .
• Since 1923 - Deputy Commissar of Posts and Telegraph of the USSR.
• 1927 - 1928 - Acting People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraph of the USSR.
• 1928 - 1934 - Commissioner of the USSR Commissariat of Communications in the Far East, Eastern Siberia.
• 1934 - 1935 - at the disposal of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b).
• 1935 - 1937 - Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Belarusian SSR and Chairman of the State Planning Commission of the Republic.

The delegate of the VII , X , XV congresses of the party.

Arrested on July 5, 1937.

The memoirs of the Belarusian party worker Ya. I. Drobinsky describe the methods of investigation in the Minsk Central Prison in 1938:

“At ten he was again led through this corridor, into this room - but what a difference! In the afternoon it was a quiet corridor, quiet offices in which neat, sleek people leafed through folders. In the evening, Andrei walked, as if through a system, - the screams of the tortured, the arena of torture rushed from all the rooms. A body lying on the floor flashed somewhere. Andrei saw a reddened familiar face. It was Lyubovich - the old Bolshevik, deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the republic, chairman of the State Planning Commission. He was in the first government created by Lenin in October 1917. He entered there as deputy. People's Commissar of Communications Podbelsky. He was a member of the Small Council of People's Commissars, worked with Lenin. Now he was lying on the floor, he was whipped with rubber, and he, an old sixty-year-old man, shouted: “Mom!” Instantly, but it engraved in memory forever. ”

- Jacob Drobinsky. "Chronicle of a single investigation / August 1937 - December 1939 /", p. 85 ^{[1] [2]}

Condemned on June 28, 1938 by the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to capital punishment. Accusation: Articles 69, 79, 76 (participation in anti-Soviet right-wing organizations, wrecking in industry and agriculture). Shot the same day, buried in Minsk ^[3] . Rehabilitated February 29, 1956 by the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.

On April 18, 2013 in Zhitomir, on the building of the city gymnasium No. 3 (the former city school), a memorial plaque was opened to A. M. Lubovich ^[4] .

• Biography of Lyubovich Artemy Moiseevich

• State power of the USSR. The supreme bodies of power and administration and their leaders. 1923-1991 Moscow, 1999.