Iosif Warejkis

Iosif Mikhailovich Vareikis (; ; 18 October 1894 – 28 July 1938) was a Soviet Lithuanian politician and Communist Party official. Biography Early career Born into a working-class family in a village called Aseka-Vareiki, in Kovno (Kaunas) province, Lithuania, he moved to Moscow and worked as a turner-toolmaker at factories. From 1911 he was involved in underground social democratic circles and eventually joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) in 1913. In the summer of 1913, Vareikis and two other Bolsheviks founded a sports club in Podolsk with the aim of involving workers in revolutionary activities. With his participation, the football team of the Singer sewing machine plant was founded.