caption death_date death_place birth_place monuments other_names nationality ethnicity name birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name death_cause
simon `` kamo '' ter-petrosian in 1922 14 july 1922 tiflis , georgian ssr gori , georgia governorate monument stalin -rrb- in pushkin gardens -lrb- later removed by joseph kamo russian , georgian ssr armenian-georgian simon arshaki ter-petrosian -lrb- kamo -rrb- 27 may 1882 1907 tiflis bank robbery kamo -lrb- ter-petrossian -rrb- . jpg kamo -lrb- bolshevik -rrb-
 simon arshaki ter-petrosian car accident
kamo -lrb- bolshevik -rrb-

kamo , real name simon arshaki ter-petrosian -lrb- , , , 27 may 1882 -- 14 july 1922 -rrb- , was an old bolshevik revolutionary of armenian-georgian ethnicity and an early companion to soviet leader joseph stalin .
from 1903 -- 1912 , kamo , a master of disguise , carried out a number of militant operations on behalf of the bolshevik faction of the russian social-democratic labour party , mostly in georgia , then part of the russian empire .
he is best known for his central role in the 1907 tiflis bank robbery , organised by bolshevik leaders to raise funds for their party activities .
for his militant activities he was arrested in berlin in 1907 but simulated insanity both in german and later russian prisons , eventually escaping from prison and fleeing the country .
he was recaptured in 1912 after another attempted armed robbery and sentenced to death .
the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment as part of the celebrations of the romanov dynasty tricentennial .
kamo was released after the february 1917 russian revolution .
he died in 1922 after being hit by a truck while riding a bicycle in tiflis .
kamo was buried and had a monument erected in his honor in pushkin gardens , near yerevan square , but this monument was later removed during stalin 's rule , and kamo 's remains moved to an unknown location .
the name `` kamo '' originated from ter-petrosian 's lack of fluency in the russian language .
during school lessons as a child , ter-petrosian attempted to ask the teacher , `` what ? ''
-lrb- , '' Чему ? '' -rrb-
but instead replied with `` to whom ? ''
: `` kamo ? ''
this error entertained his friends so much that he was known as kamo -lrb- -rrb- for the rest of his life .
