Pyotr Smidovich
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Pyotr Germogenovich Smidovich (Template:Lang-ru) 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