Yitzhak Weinstein-Branovsky

Yitzhak Weinstein-Branovsky (, , ; 1888–1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as a senior government official in the Lithuanian Soviet Republic and the Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Republic, serving as a People's Commissar in both republics in 1918–1919.

From Bundist to Bolshevik Weinstein, who would later acquire the party name 'Branovsky', was born in 1888 in Odessa. He was a member of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) in 1917.

Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic When the Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia was founded on February 27, 1919, Weinstein-Branovsky was named People's Commissar for Finance of the new republic. 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. Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija, a Soviet encyclopedia, provided different information about his death. According to the encyclopedia, he died while fighting German forces in the Battle of Moscow in 1941.