Name Pyotr Smidovich | Died 1935, Moscow, Russia | |
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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. The idea to found a Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the USSR with Yiddish as its official language belonged to Mikhail Kalinin and Smidovich.
The urban-type settlement of Smidovich in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast is named after him.
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