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]

Pyotr Smidovich

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

3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2007-09-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Political offices
Preceded by Mikhail Pokrovsky	Mayor of Moscow March–October, 1918	Succeeded by Lev Kamenev