# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-vasilyevich-smirnov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:37:49.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-vasilyevich-smirnov"
name: "Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov"
slug: "ivan-vasilyevich-smirnov"
description: "Ivan Vasilyevich Smirnov, or Iwan Smirnoff, was a Russian World War I flying ace and naturalized Dutch aviator who pioneered the Europe to South East Asia routes. He was born to a poor peasant family, and later became an officer in the Imperial Russian Air Service. After surviving infantry combat, he trained as a pilot, and was subsequently credited with 11 aerial victories during World War I. When the October Revolution ended his participation in the war, he deserted and became an itinerant pilot. He served short spells in the Royal Air Force, the Volunteer Army of Anton Denikin, Handley Page and SNETA. The Russian emigrant subsequently piloted for KLM for the next 25 years, pioneering air routes to the Dutch East Indies in the process. In December 1941, Smirnov returned to military flying during the frenzied air evacuation of Dutch nationals. After the Dutch East Indies were overrun by the Japanese, he joined the U.S. Air Transport Command. He served through the war's end and returned to KLM."
tagline: "Russian flying ace (1895-1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-07771%2C_Holl%C3%A4ndische_Indienflieger_Smirnoff_und_Ahler_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
birthDate: "1895-02-12"
deathDate: "1956-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           9.2144
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Ivan Vasiljevič Smirnov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vasiljevi%C4%8D_Smirnov"
    title: "Ivan Vasiljevič Smirnov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan_Wassiljewitsch_Smirnow"
    title: "Iwan Wassiljewitsch Smirnow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Smirnov_(aviator)"
    title: "Ivan Smirnov (aviator)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vassilievitch_Smirnov"
    title: "Ivan Vassilievitch Smirnov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan_Smirnoff"
    title: "Iwan Smirnoff"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Vasziljevics_Szmirnov"
    title: "Ivan Vasziljevics Szmirnov"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan_Smirnoff"
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    title: "Смирнов, Иван Васильевич"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump