Ivan Smirnov (politician)

Ivan Smirnov
1st People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs
In office
6 July 1923 – 12 November 1927
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byArtemy Lyubovich
Personal details
BornJanuary 1881
Died25 August 1936 (aged 55)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Resting placeDonskoye Cemetery
CitizenshipSoviet
PartyCPSU
Spouse(s)A. N. Safonova
Varvara Yakovleva
Children4
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Ivan Nikitich Smirnov (Russian: Ива́н Ники́тич Смирно́в; January 1881 – 25 August 1936) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and Communist Party functionary. A prominent member of the Left Opposition, he led a secret Trotskyist opposition group in the Soviet Union during the Stalin period. He was arrested in 1933 and shot during the Great Purge.