Kliment Voroshilov

Kliment Voroshilov

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: Климент Ефремович Ворошилов ; 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 military officer and politician during the Stalin-era. He was one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union, the second highest military rank of the Soviet Union (junior to the Generalissimus of the Soviet Union, which was a post only held by Joseph Stalin), and served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nominal Soviet head of state, from 1953 to 1960. Born to a Russian worker's family in Ukraine, Voroshilov took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917 as an early member of the Bolsheviks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kliment Voroshilov has received more than 1,410,383 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Kliment Voroshilov is the 646th most popular politician (up from 652nd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 16th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Kliment Voroshilov was a Soviet military commander and politician. He served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1935 to 1941. He also served as a First Deputy Premier from 1939 to 1953. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, and the Order of the Red Star.