Yitzhak Weinstein-Branovsky

Yitzhak Weinstein-Branovsky (Lithuanian: Aizikas Vainšteinas-Branovskis, Russian: Айзик Вайнштейн-Брановский, Polish: Ajzik Wajnsztajn-Branowski; 1888–1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary.

[3] In the wake of the November 1918 Revolution in Germany, some 40 cadres, including Weinstein-Branovsky, were sent from Soviet Russia into Lithuania to organize revolutionary activities between mid-November and mid-December 1918.

[5] The Central Bureau the Jewish Sections of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) dispatched Weinstein-Branovsky, Semyon Dimanstein and Y. Shimelevich to Lithuania.

[7] On April 29, 1919, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia decided to reorganize the Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet government, and Weinstein-Branovsky was named as the new People's Commissar for Justice.

[5] Weinstein-Branovsky and Eidukevičius set up new revolutionary committees in nearby Anykščiai, Debeikiai, Vyžuonos, Užpaliai and Tauragnai, and organized a local militia force in the area.