Ivar Smilga

Ivar Smilga
Ивар Смилга
Smilga c. 1917
Deputy Chairman of the
State Planning Committee
In office
1930–1934
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Preceded byNikolai Vashkov
Succeeded byEmanuel Kviring
In office
1924–1926
PremierAlexei Rykov
Preceded byGeorgy Pyatakov
Succeeded byNikolai Vashkov
Rector of the Moscow Institute
of National Economics
In office
1925–1927
Preceded byNikolai Chelyapov
Succeeded byArtemic Khalatov
Member of the
Russian Constituent Assembly
In office
25 November 1917  20 January 1918
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyNorthern Front
Personal details
Born(1892-12-02)2 December 1892 (N.S.)
Aloja, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died10 January 1937(1937-01-10) (aged 44)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of deathExecution by firing squad
Resting placeDonskoye Cemetery
Political party
Other political
affiliations
Left Opposition (1925–1929)
SpouseNadezhda Poluyan
Children
  • Tatyana
  • Natalya
EducationImperial Moscow University

Ivar Tenisovich Smilga (Russian: И́вар Тени́сович Сми́лга; Latvian: Ivars Smilga; 2 December 1892 – 10 January 1937) was a Latvian Bolshevik leader, Soviet politician and economist. He was a member of the Left Opposition in the Soviet Union.