Pyotr Smorodin

Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin was a Soviet politician who was a founding member of the Komsomol, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol from 1921 to 1924, a member of the NKVD troika, the First Secretary of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938, and the First Secretary of the Stalingrad City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1938 until his execution in 1939 during the Great Purge.