Career
In 1960–1965, he was the editor-in-chief of the Druzhba Narodov magazine.
In 1960–1965, he was the editor-in-chief of the Druzhba Narodov magazine.
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Having published his first work in 1924, Smirnov became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1925.