Kliment Voroshilov (help·info) or Klyment Voroshylov (Russian: Климе́нт Ефре́мович Вороши́лов, Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Ukrainian: Климент Єфремович Ворошилов, Klyment Yefremovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Russian: Клим Вороши́лов, Klim Vorošilov) (February 4 [O.S. January 23] 1881 – December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician.
Voroshilov was born in Lysychansk (now in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine), i...
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Kliment Voroshilov (help·info) or Klyment Voroshylov (Russian: Климе́нт Ефре́мович Вороши́лов, Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Ukrainian: Климент Єфремович Ворошилов, Klyment Yefremovych Voroshylov), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov (Russian: Клим Вороши́лов, Klim Vorošilov) (February 4 [O.S. January 23] 1881 – December 2, 1969) was a Soviet military commander and politician.
Voroshilov was born in Lysychansk (now in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine), in the Russian Empire, to a railway worker's family of Russian ethnicity. He joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Voroshilov was a member of the Ukrainian provisional government and Commissar for Internal Affairs. He was well known for aiding Stalin in the Military Council (led by Leon Trotsky), having become closely associated during the Red Army's 1918 defense of Tsaritsyn. Voroshilov was instrumental as a commander of the Southern Front during the...
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