Tiraspol, the capital of Transnistria

Kotovsky statue, Tiraspol

The statue in Park Pobeda, Tiraspol, of Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky (1881 – 1925); born in Bessarabia, he was an adventurist, bank robber, gangster and a Soviet military and political figure, fighting in the Russian Civil War. In 1918 he sided with the Communists in Tiraspol, taking command of a revolutionary battalion and helping the Bolsheviks gain control of Ukraine. In 1924, he took an active part in the foundation of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in Transnistria, as part of the Ukrainian SSR.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Wed Oct 14, 2015
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