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Igor Smirnov
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first President of Transnistria
Key facts
- Vice president
- Alexandru Caraman , Sergey Leontiev , Aleksandr Korolyov
- Preceded by
- Andrey Manoylov (acting)
- Succeeded by
- Yevgeny Shevchuk
- Born
- Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov , ( 1941-10-23 ) 23 October 1941 (age 84) , Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union , (now Russia)
- Party
- Republic
- Spouse
- Zhannetta Nikolaevna Lotnik
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Smirnov
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
- Occupation
- economist
- Position held
- President of Transnistria
- Political party
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Religion
- atheism
- Image
- Igor Smirnov.jpg
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- Commons category
- Igor Smirnov
- date of birth
- 1941-10-23
- name in native language
- Игорь Николаевич Смирнов
- P10632
- Igor Smirnov
- ethnic group
- Russians
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Encyclopedic overview
Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov (Russian: И́горь Никола́евич Смирно́в, romanized: Igor' Nikolayevich Smirnov, Romanian: Igor Nicolaevici Smirnov; born 23 October 1941) is a Russian-born Transnistrian politician who served as the first president (1991–2011) of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
Childhood
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