In 2014, Smirnova switched from Russia to competing for Azerbaijan along with Anna Pavlova, Marina Nekrasova, and Yulia Inshina, and these gymnasts formed Azerbaijan's first women's artistic gymnastics national team in seventeen years. They competed at the 2014 European Championships where they finished sixteenth in the qualification round. The same team then competed at the World Championships where they finished thirtieth in the qualification round.
