Tomasz Adam Merta (7 November 1965, Legnica – 10 April 2010, Smolensk) was a Polish historian and Polish Undersecretary of State from 2005 to 2010. He served as the Polish Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Merta was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment, which was carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, and crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Smolensk, Russia, on 10 April 2010, killing all aboard. On April 16, 2010, he was posthumously decorated with the Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restitu
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