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Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: Климент Ефремович Ворошилов pronounced ⓘ; Ukrainian: Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, Klyment Okhrimovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Russian: Клим Ворошилов; 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969), was a prominent Soviet ...
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (born Feb. 4 [Jan. 23, Old Style], 1881, Verkhneye, Russia—died Dec. 2, 1969, Moscow) was a military and political leader of the Soviet Union who served as head of state after the death of his close friend and collaborator Joseph Stalin.
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The Kliment Voroshilov (KV; Russian: Климент Ворошилов, КВ) tanks are a series of Soviet heavy tanks named after the Soviet defence commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov who operated with the Red Army during World War II.
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Kliment Voroshilov. Sputnik. Kliment Yefremovich did, indeed, have much greater influence than other military commanders. From 1925, he was in charge of the country’s defense department, first...
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Kliment Voroshilov. Following the end of the war and Stalin’s death in March 1953, Voroshilov played a waiting game to see who would emerge as his successor: NKVD Secret Police Chief Laventi P. Beria, or Khrushchev.
Quick Reference. (1881–1969) Soviet statesman and marshal. One of the oldest of the Bolsheviks, he became president (1953–60) after Stalin's death. Born in Verkhne, Dnepropetrovsk, the son of a miner, Voroshilov worked in the mines as a child before attending school.
VOROSHILOV, KLIMENT EFREMOVICH (1881 – 1969), leading Soviet political and military figure, member of Stalin's inner circle. A machinist's apprentice who joined the Bolsheviks in 1903, Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov spent nearly a decade underground and in exile, then emerged in late 1917 to become the commissar of Petrograd.
