Which Smirnov is behind the Smirnov topology?

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Good old Steen and Seebach discuss the Smirnov deleted sequence topology in their Counterexamples in Topology (2nd ed. 1978).

This is also reported as the $K$-topology, in e.g. Wikipedia etc.

However, none of the sources that I've found tell us which particular Smirnov is behind it.

I am guessing it's Yurii Mikhailovich Smirnov as of all the Smirnovs I know of in mathematics, he is the one who has greatest involvement in topology.

(For example: Vladimir Ivanovich is known for a 5-volume textbook, and Nikolai Vasilyevich made a name for himself in statistics.)

Yurii Mikhailovich is of course the mathematician whose name is associated with the Nagata-Smirnov metrization theorem, so it's more than plausible it's the same one.

Can anyone point me towards a source that can confirm this?

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It is Yurii Mikhailovich Smirnov: the space is Example $1$ in his paper О МЕТРИЗАЦИИ ТОПОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПРОСТРАНСТВ (On metrization of topological spaces), Uspekhi Matem. Nauk, 1951, 6, 100-111. It’s on p. 107 at the end of Section 2.