Talk:Smolin

Ivan Smolin(s)

The same IS is mentioned in

• 1st Rifle Division (Soviet Union), and
• Battle of Radzymin (1920)

and the battle establishes him as fl. 1920 (and not in the WWII battle at the same place). (His division was sorely pressed, but i found no hint that he died in it.), so i added him to

• Smolin, the accompanying surname SIA.

An IS was commander of the

• Red Banner Caucasus Army

for part of one year in the '30s; who knows?

I Googled up a bizarre scrap using the name, attributed to a "wikileaks" site; it makes a (for me!) cryptic (and thus still further from RS) reference to "Ivan Smolin" aircraft that apparently date from the 1970s (with a tone that vaguely suggested to me it was of interest bcz so presumably obsolete). As it sounds like the battle was an important Red victory, that could explain who the plane was named for.
(In case anybody cares)
--Jerzy•t 11:25, 8 August 2016 (UTC)