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

1. ^ ^{a b} [1]
2. ^ [2]
3. ^ [3]

Preceded by Mikhail Pokrovsky

Mayor of Moscow March 1918–October 1918

Succeeded by Lev Kamenev

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Name	Smidovich, Pyotr
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Date of birth	1874
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Date of death	1935
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