Grigory Kotovsky
Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky (Russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Кото́вский, Ukrainian: Григорій Котовський, Romanian: Grigore Kotovski; June 24 [O.S. June 12] 1881 – August 6, 1925) was a Soviet military officer and political activist, and participant in the Russian Civil War. He made a career from being a gangster and bank robber to eventually becoming a Red Army commander and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.