Pyotr Smirnov

Pyotr Smirnov
Smirnov in 1938
People’s Commissar for the Navy
In office
30 December 1937 – 30 June 1938
Preceded byMikhail Viktorov
Succeeded byMikhail Frinovsky
Personal details
Born(1897-05-29)29 May 1897
Died23 February 1939(1939-02-23) (aged 41)
PartyAll-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1938)
Awards
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner
Military service
Allegiance Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918–1922)
Soviet Union (1922–1938)
Branch/serviceRed Guards
Red Army
Soviet Navy
Years of service
1918–1938
RankArmy Commissar of 1st rank
Battles/warsRussian Civil War

Pyotr Alexandrovich Smirnov (Russian: Пётр Александрович Смирнов; 29 May 1897 – 23 February 1939) was a Soviet politician who served as People's Commissar of the Navy of the Soviet Union .