Pável Gerásimovich Poltorátskiy (c. 1888, Novocherkassk – 21 July 1918) (Russian: Павел Герасимович Полторацкий) was a Bolshevik revolutionary.
He served as People's Commissar for Labor in the early Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic and as editor of the daily newspaper Sovetskiy Turkmenistan.
[2] Poltoratskiy traveled from Tashkent to Merv, arriving 13 July 1918, leading a small group of revolutionaries.
He was soon taken captive by the Transcaspian Government which had recently been formed by Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries.
[1][2] From 17 July 1919 until 27 October 1927 the capital city of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, was named Poltoratsk in his honor.