Ivar Smilga

Ivar Smilga
Ivar Smilga
И́вар Сми́лга
	Smilga c. 1917
Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Committee
	In office; 1924–1926
Premier	Alexei Rykov
Preceded by	Georgy Pyatakov
Succeeded by	Nikolai Vashkov
Personal details
Born	2 December 1892 (N.S.); Aloja, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Died	10 January 1938 (aged 45); Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Cause of death	Execution by firing squad
Resting place	Donskoye Cemetery
Political party	RSDLP (1907–1914); RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1914–1918); RCP(b) (1918–1927);
Other political; affiliations	Left Opposition (1925–1929)
Spouse	Nadezhda Poluyan
Children	Tatyana; Natalya;
Education	Imperial Moscow University

Ivar Tenisovich Smilga (Russian: И́вар Тени́сович Сми́лга, Latvian: Ivars Smilga; 2 December 1892 – 10 January 1938) was a Latvian Bolshevik leader, Soviet politician and economist. He was a member of the Left Opposition in the Soviet Union.