Piotr Smoleński (died 9 January 1942) was a

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in the Russian section (''B.S.-3'') of the

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's Cipher Bureau. With other cryptologists, including

Jan Graliński Jan Józef Graliński (February 8, 1895 – January 9, 1942) was chief of the Poland, Polish General Staff's interbellum Biuro Szyfrów, Cipher Bureau's Russian section, ''B.S.-3.'' After Poland was overrun by the Germany, Germans and Soviet U ...

, he died in the sinking of the passenger ship ''

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'' in the

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References

*. See in particular p. 106. Year of birth missing 1942 deaths 20th-century cryptographers 20th-century Polish mathematicians Polish cryptographers Cipher Bureau (Poland) Deaths due to shipwreck at sea {{Poland-mathematician-stub