Pyotr Smidovich
Pyotr Smidovich
Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich (Russian: Пётр Гермогенович Смидович; 1874 – 1935) was a Russian revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Smidovich was the leader of communist organization Komzet, which was established in 1921 in Russia.[1] The idea to found a Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the USSR with Yiddish as its official language belonged to Mikhail Kalinin and Smidovich.[1]
The urban-type settlement of Smidovich in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast is named after him.[2][3]
See also
- List of Jewish Autonomous Oblast Leaders
- Jews and Judaism in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Mikhail Kalinin
References
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Mikhail Pokrovsky |
Mayor of Moscow March 1918–October 1918 |
Succeeded by Lev Kamenev |
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