# Pyotr Smirnov

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{{Short description|Soviet commissar, deputy minister of defence, and commander of the Soviet Navy}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = Pyotr Smirnov
| image         = Smirnov PA.jpg
| caption       = Smirnov in 1938
| image_size    =
| office        = [People’s Commissar for the Navy](/source/People's_Commissariat_of_the_Navy_of_the_Soviet_Union)
| term_start    = 30 December 1937
| term_end      = 30 June 1938
| predecessor   = [Mikhail Viktorov](/source/Mikhail_Viktorov)
| successor     = [Mikhail Frinovsky](/source/Mikhail_Frinovsky)
| birth_name    = 
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1897|5|29|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [Vyatka](/source/Kirov%2C_Kirov_Oblast), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1939|2|23|1897|5|29|df=y}}
| death_place   = [Moscow](/source/Moscow), [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)
| constituency  = 
| party         = [All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)](/source/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union) (1917–1938)
| occupation    = 
| footnotes     = 
| premier       = 
| premier2      = 
| rank          = [Army Commissar of 1st rank](/source/Army_Commissar_of_1st_rank)
| alma_mater    = 
| allegiance    = {{Flag|Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|1918}} (1918–1922)<br>{{Flag|Soviet Union|1936}} (1922–1938)
| branch        = [Red Guards](/source/Red_Guards_(Russia))<br>[Red Army](/source/Red_Army)<br>[Soviet Navy](/source/Soviet_Navy)
| service_years = 1918–1938
| battles       = [Russian Civil War](/source/Russian_Civil_War)
| awards        = [Order of Lenin](/source/Order_of_Lenin)<br>[Order of the Red Banner](/source/Order_of_the_Red_Banner) 
}}
'''Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov''' ({{langx|ru|Пётр Александрович Смирнов}}; 29 May 1897 – 23 February 1939) was a [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) politician who served as [People's Commissar of the Navy of the Soviet Union](/source/People's_Commissariat_of_the_Navy_of_the_Soviet_Union) .<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biography of Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov. Russian|url=http://deduhova.ru/statesman/pyotr-aleksandrovich-smirnov/}}</ref>

==Biography==
Smirnov was born in a workers family in a village near Vyatka in 1897. He finished school and worked as a smith in a timber mill from 1913. He joined the [Bolsheviks](/source/Bolsheviks) in March 1917 and was a member of the [Red Guards](/source/Red_Guards_(Russia)). He fought in the [Civil War](/source/Russian_Civil_War) ending as a brigade commander and a political officer of an army. In 1921 he took part in the suppression of the [Kronstadt rebellion](/source/Kronstadt_rebellion).

In the 1920s he was a [political commissar](/source/political_commissar) of the Volga and North Caucasus military districts. From 1926 he joined the political directorate of the armed forces and was political commissar of the [Baltic Fleet](/source/Baltic_Fleet) and Military districts.

In 1937 he was involved in the purge of military leaders including [Yakov Gamarnik](/source/Yakov_Gamarnik). In October 1937 he became deputy minister of defence, and was [People's Commissar of the Navy](/source/People's_Commissariat_of_the_Navy_of_the_Soviet_Union) from December 1937.

==Repression==
He was arrested in June 1938 and executed by firing squad in February 1939. He was [rehabilitated](/source/Rehabilitation_(Soviet)) in 1956.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Repression in the Red Army (30s). Collection of documents from the funds of the Russian State Military Archive / Compiled by Kristiani A., Mikhaleva V. M .. – Napoli, 1996}}</ref>

==Awards==
* The order of Lenin;
* Order of the Red Banner (1921).

== References ==
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| before= [Mikhail Viktorov](/source/Mikhail_Viktorov) 
| title=  [Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy](/source/Soviet_Navy)
| years=1937–1938
| after=[Mikhail Frinovsky](/source/Mikhail_Frinovsky)}}
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| before= None
| title=  [People's Commissars for the Navy](/source/People's_Commissariat_of_the_Navy_of_the_Soviet_Union)
| years=1937–1938
| after=[Mikhail Frinovsky](/source/Mikhail_Frinovsky)}}
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Category:People from Slobodskoy Uyezd
Category:Old Bolsheviks
Category:First convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Category:NKVD officers
Category:Soviet Navy personnel
Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
Category:People of the Russian Civil War
Category:Chiefs of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Soviet Navy
Category:Great Purge victims from Russia
Category:Soviet rehabilitations

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