Ivar Denisovich Smilga (18921938). Bolshevik leader and economist. he was a member of the Left Opposition in the Soviet Union. Smilga returned to Petrograd, and became a leading figure in the Bolshevik organisation in the Kronstadt naval base. Smilga returned to Petrograd in January 1918, and served as a member of the praesidium of the Petrograd soviet and an editor of the Bolshevik newspaper Petrogradskaya Pravda. At the first of three Moscow show trials, in August 1936, the lead defendant Grigory Zinoviev named Smilga as having been implicated in the 'Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre'. He was shot in February 1938.