Shimeliovich Yuly (Yeguda) Abramovich (1890, Riga, according to other sources – Dinaburg, Vitebsk Governorate – 1919, Vilna), political figure. Brother of B. A. Shimeliovich. He received a traditional Jewish religious education. From 1905 a member of the Riga organisation of the Bund, a participant in the revolution of 1905–07. In 1909 he was briefly arrested. A participant in the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. In 1918 – in Moscow, head of the out-of-town department of the Jewish Commissariat of the People's Commissariat of Nationalities; on the instructions of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) he set up Jewish communist organisations in Vitebsk, Orel, and other cities, and formed Jewish detachments of the Red Army. One of the organisers and a participant in the 1st Conference of Jewish Communist Sections (October 1918, Moscow), at which he was elected deputy chairman of the Jewish Commissariat of the People's Commissariat of Nationalities and a member of the Central Bureau of Jewish Communist Sections. From the autumn of 1918 engaged in underground work in Lithuania, one of the creators and secretary of the Council of Workers' Deputies and Jewish communist cells in Vilna, founder and editor of the Jewish newspaper “Communist.” In 1919, after Polish legionnaires entered Vilna, he led the defence of the building of the Vilna Soviet. Unwilling to surrender, Sh. and eight of his comrades took their own lives. Sh. is the main hero of M. Daniel's novella “Yulis” and his play “Four Days.”

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