Perm Governorate
From 1870 to 1879 Smyshlyayev was a chairman of the Governorate Executive Board. He brought up the problems of national education, medicine and improvements of social welfare. In 1872 he founded the journal "Anthology of Perm Zemstvo" (). He edited it until 1878 and published 34 issues. Later he edited the unofficial part of "Perm Governorate News".