caption serviceyears commands death_date death_place birth_place allegiance awards battles birth_date rank image article_title name
grigory kotovsky 1918 -- 1925 red army 6 august 1925 chebanka village , near odessa , soviet union hînceşti , russian empire -lrb- 1918-1925 -rrb- order of the red banner -lrb- 3 -rrb- russian civil war 24 june 1881 general kotovsky.jpg grigory kotovsky
 '' ` grigory ivanovich kotovsky '' '
grigory kotovsky

grigory ivanovich kotovsky -lrb- , ; -- august 6 , 1925 -rrb- was an adventurist , soviet military and political figure , participant of the russian civil war .
he made a career from a russian gangster and bank robber , to eventually becoming a red army general and member of the central executive committee of the soviet union .
