Subsequent waves of migrants arrived over the following few decades, and the population rapidly increased, reaching 1,175 people by 1830 and 6,070 by 1886.

It repeatedly changed hands between the White Army and the Bolsheviks over the remainder of the war, before finally ending up in the hands of the Bolsheviks on October 25, 1920, who established the communist Soviet Union on much of the territory of the former Russian Empire.

[1] Smyrnove was incorporated into Bilmak Raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The 18th army entrenched itself and held out for a time, waiting for other Soviet forces led by Ivan Shepetov to arrive.

German troops captured Popivka and killed any remaining wounded Soviet soldiers they found, "ransacking" the village.

In June 1946, after the end of the war, Popivka was renamed Smyrnove in honor of Andrey Smirnov.