Igor Smirnov

1st President of Transnistria

Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov 23 October 1941 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

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1 October 1991 – 30 December 2011

First President of Transnistria This article is about the politician. For the scientist, see Igor Smirnov (scientist). In this Eastern Slavic naming convention, the patronymic is Nikolaevich and the family name is Smirnov. Igor Nikolaevich Smirnov (Russian: И́горь Никола́евич Смирно́в , tr. Igorʹ Nikolayevich Smirnov; Romanian: Igor Nicolaevici Smirnov; born 23 October 1941) is a Transnistrian politician who served as the first president (1991–2011) of the internationally unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic.