Kliment voroshilov wikipedia
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Kliment Voroshilov
| Surname | Voroshilov |
| Given Name | Kliment |
| Born | 4 Feb 1881 |
| Died | 2 Dec 1969 |
| Country | Russia |
| Category | Government |
| Gender | Male |
Contributor: C.
Peter Chen
ww2dbaseKliment Yefremovich Voroshilov was born in the settlement of Verkhnye in the Bakhmut district of Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire (now part of Lysychansk, Ukraine) to an ethnically Russian railway worker father.
He joined the Bolshevik of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1905. In 1906, he married Ekaterina Davidovna, who was born Golda Gorbman, a Jewish Ukrainian who converted to Orthodox Christianity and adopted a new name.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Vproshilov became a member of the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars and Commissar for Internal Affairs, and began to work alongside of Joseph Stalin. During the Russian Civil War, he was an officer of the Southern Front, and again served as a military officer