Leonid Vasilyevich Smirnov (Russian: Леонид Васильевич Смирнов; 3 April 1916 - 21 December 2001) was a Soviet statesman. He served as a director of the missile ...
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factory at Dnipropetrovsk in the late 1950s, developing strategic missiles for the USSR´s defense. In March 1963 he became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, reporting to Minister of Defence Dmitriy Ustinov.
