Grigori Potemkin ɗan ƙasar Rasha ne kuma shugaban soja wanda ya rayu daga 1739 zuwa 1791. Ya kasance mai ba da shawara na kusa ga Empress Catherine II kuma ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen hawanta mulki. An san Potemkin ne saboda kokarin fadada yankunan daular Rasha a yankin tekun Black Sea da kuma rawar da ya taka wajen mamaye Crimea.Duk da haka, yana da mahimmanci a lura cewa "Grigori Potemkin" suna ne. kuma ba kalma ba, don haka ba ta da ma'anar ƙamus.