[1] The chairman of the executive committee from March 17 was Boris Pozern, from July (21, 1917 Isidor Lyubimov, and from October, Karl Lander.

According to the charter, the executive committee initially included 18 (later 16) representatives from industrial enterprises, 18 (then 20) from military units, one each from the General Jewish Labour Bund, Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Socialist Revolutionary Party and also from the Council of Peasants' Deputies.

[2] In the period prior to the October Revolution the council actively participated in the convening of the 1st Congress of Military and Workers' Deputies of the Armies and Rear of the Western Front.

On November 9, on the initiative of the Council, the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Western Front was convened, which included members of the Presidium.

[4] The instructions of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the BSSR noted that citizens who have reached the age of 18, regardless of religion, nationality, settlement, gender, earning a living through productive and socially useful work, soldiers, as well as persons engaged in housekeeping, employees and other categories who do not use hired labor, have the right to be elected.

Private traders, clergy, including monks, former police officers, members of the royal family in Russia, the mentally ill and those convicted of crimes were deprived of the right to vote and be elected.

[7] The activities of the Minsk City Council of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies were suspended due to the German occupation of Byelorussia in June 1941.