- A monument was built of her in Moscow
- The Soviet Union issued a stamp with her likeness
- Diamond named after Samantha
- A mountain in former Soviet Union named after her
- Some Culver tulips and dahlias named in her honor
- An ocean vessel named in her honor
- In Maine, the first Monday in June of each year is officially designated as Samantha Smith Day by state law.
- Her mother found The Samantha Smith Foundation
FUN FACTS
- She hosted a children's special for the Disney Channel entitled Samantha Smith Goes to Washington...Campaign '84
- Co starred with Robert Wagner in a television show called "Lime Street"
- Samantha Smith's accomplishment was being known as "America's Youngest Ambassador". She wrote a letter to the Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov to understand why the Soviet Union and the United States relationship was so tense. She wrote:
Dear Mr.Andropov,
My name is Samantha Smith. I am ten years old. Congratulations on your new job. I have been worrying about Russia and the United states getting into a nuclear war. Are you going to vote to have a war or not? If you aren't please tell me how you are going to help not to have war. This question you don't have to answer but I would like to know why you want to conquer the world or at least our country. God made the world for us to live together in peace and not to fight.
Sincerely,
Samantha Smith
Later on her letter was published in the newspaper "Pravda". After awhile Andropov replied back to her on April 26,1983. She went to Russia to be Andropov guest for two weeks. But didn't get to meet him because he was very ill. Samantha began to be very well known to many people in the United States and Russia. She also wrote a book about herself.
WHY SIGNIFICANT?
Samantha Smith is significant because she took the courage to write about something most 11 year old aren't concerned about. She also did things that most children didn't do like visit important figures. She was a smart, cute , good writer.
