Ivan Smirnov (politician)

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Ivan Smirnov
1st People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs
In office 6 July 1923 – 12 November 1927
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Artemy Lyubovich
Personal details
Born	1881 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	1936 , executed Moscow
Resting place	Donskoye Cemetery
Citizenship	Soviet
Political party	CPSU

Ivan Nikitich Smirnov (Russian: Ива́н Ники́тич Смирно́в; 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.^[1] He was arrested in 1933 and shot during the Great Purge.