He held FC Aktobe's club record for most Premier League appearances, before being surpassed by Yuri Logvinenko, in August 2013.

[1] In October 2014, Smakov, along with Dmitri Khomich, Mikhail Bakayev, Zaurbek Pliyev and Aleksandr Kislitsyn, was banned from training with FC Kairat by the club.

[4] Samat received his first cap for Kazakhstan on 31 March 2000 in an Asian Cup qualifier against Jordan at the age of 18.

Currently he holds a record as the most capped player of the Kazakhstan national football team with 74 matches as of June 2016.

[7] Statistics accurate as of match played 11 October 2016[8] Yelimay Irtysh-Bastau Zhenis Astana Kairat Aktobe Individual