Kliment Voroshilov

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: Климе́нт Ефре́мович Вороши́лов​) (born 4 February 1881 – died 2 December 1969), was a Soviet military officer and politician during Joseph Stalin's era. He was one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union. It is considered the highest military rank of the Soviet Union.

Kliment Voroshilov Marshal HSU HSL
Климeнт Ворошилов
Kliment Voroshilov in 1961
President of the Soviet Union
In office 15 March 1953 – 7 May 1960
Premier	Georgy Malenkov Nikolai Bulganin Nikita Khrushchev
Preceded by	Nikolai Shvernik
Succeeded by	Leonid Brezhnev
Defence Minister of the Soviet Union
In office 31 October 1925 – 7 May 1940
President	Mikhail Kalinin
Premier	Alexei Rykov(until 1930) Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by	Mikhail Frunze
Succeeded by	Semyon Tymoshenko
Personal details
Born	Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (1881-02-04)4 February 1881 Bakhmut, Russian Empire
Died	2 December 1969(1969-12-02) (aged 88) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Spouse(s)	Ekaterina Voroshilova
Children	Petya Voroshilov Timur Frunze (adopted) Tatyana Frunze (adopted)
Military service
Allegiance	Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Branch/service	Red Army Soviet Armed Forces
Years of service	1917–1969
Rank	Marshal
Commands	North Caucasus Military District Moscow Military District Leningrad Front
Battles/wars	Russian Civil War Allied Invasion of Russia Polish–Soviet War Battle of Tsaritsyn World War II - Winter War Invasion of the Baltics Great Patriotic War Axis Invasion of the Soviet Union Siege of Leningrad

Early life and career

Voroshilov was born Verkhnyeye, Bakhmut uyezd, Yekaterinoslav. The place is now part of Lysychansk in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine. He was born into a railway worker's family of Russian ethnicity. According to the Soviet Major General Petro Grigorenko, Voroshilov himself alluded to the heritage of his birth-country, Ukraine, and to the previous family name of Voroshilo.

Personal life

He was married to Ekaterina Voroshilova (born Golda Gorbman). She came from a Jewish Ukrainian family from Mardarovka. She changed her name when she converted to Orthodox Christianity in order to be allowed to marry Voroshilov. During Stalin's rule, the couple lived in the Kremlin at the Horse Guards.

Death

Voroshilov died in 1969 in Moscow and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

Other websites

• Media related to Kliment Voroshilov at Wikimedia Commons