Ivan Nikitich Smirnov was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and Communist Party functionary. A prominent member of the Left Opposition, he allegedly led a secret Trotskyist opposition group in the Soviet Union during the Stalin period. He was arrested in 1933 and shot during the Great Purge.
- Occupation
- politician, economist
- Position held
- Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly, People's Commissar for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Born
- 1881
- Died
