Career
He plays for Football Club Arsenal Tula. He holds the record for Luch for most league goals in a year (19 goals in 2005) and left on 7 January 2009 the club and moved to Football Club Terek Grozny. His father, Aleksandr Smirnov, played in the Soviet Top League for Football Club Spartak Moscow.
He is not related to Dmitri Nikolayevich Smirnov with whom he played on the same team for several years for Football Club Torpedo-ZIL Moscow, Luch and Tom.
To avoid confusion, he is usually referred to as Dmitri A. Smirnov or Smirnov I.