Yemelyan Pugachev
Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev () (c. 1742 – ) was a Russian Cossack who led a great popular insurrection during the reign of Catherine the Great, claiming to be her late husband, Emperor Peter III. Alexander Pushkin wrote a notable history of the rebellion, "The History of Pugachev", and he recounted some of the events in his novel "The Captain's Daughter" (1836).
Yemelyan Pugachev
The village ("stanitsa") of , in which Pugachev was born and which name was changed after his defeat to Potyomkinskaya, was later named in his honor in 1917 following the October Revolution.