Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (Russian: Климент Ефремович Ворошилов pronounced; Ukrainian: Климент Охрімович Ворошилов, romanized: Klyment Okhrimovych...

The Kliment Voroshilov (KV; Russian: Климент Ворошилов, КВ) tanks are a series of Soviet heavy tanks named after the Soviet defence commissar and politician...

Voroshilov (Russian: Ворошилов) was a Project 26 Kirov-class cruiser of the Soviet Navy that served during World War II and into the Cold War. She bombarded...

Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Kliment Voroshilov and Lavrentiy Beria) sign an order, prepared by Beria, for the execution...

December. Kliment Voroshilov was replaced with Semyon Timoshenko as the commander of the Soviet forces in the war on 7 January 1940. The main focus of...

became the K. E. Voroshilov Military Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army, and in April 1942 it was named the K. Е. Voroshilov Higher Military...

five people: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Alexander Yegorov, and three...

Stalin and Voroshilov's dislike for him, his theories were at that time already widely influential in the Red Army. Though Kulik and Voroshilov's reforms...

early 1940, Timoshenko took over the command of the Winter War in Finland from Kliment Voroshilov and turned the tide for the Soviets. In May 1940, he was...

the creation of the title Voroshilov Shooter, and on December 29, 1932, the badge Voroshilov Shooter. The magazine "Voroshilov Shooter" started publication...

Marshal Voroshilov was more in line with Russian military tradition. In a memorandum submitted on 17 March 1940 to the Politburo and Sovnarkom, Voroshilov made...

break-through tank, developed during World War II as a part of the Kliment Voroshilov tank design series. In early 1941, Soviet intelligence reported on the...

continue the project, so it was transferred to the K.E. Voroshilov Factory Number 174 in Leningrad, May 1940, where two prototypes from the Voroshilovsky and...

First Deputy Commissar for defence to Defence Commisar Kliment Voroshilov. Voroshilov disliked Tukhachevsky and would later be one of the initiators of...

mountain troops arrived at Harstad. Semyon Timoshenko replaced Kliment Voroshilov as the Soviet Union's Minister of Defence. Born: Angela Carter, novelist...

1940, pursuant to a note to Stalin from Beria, six members of the Soviet Politburo – Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, Kliment Voroshilov...

was given the rank of General, and three days later he replaced Marshal Voroshilov on the State Defence Committee. He was also appointed USSR Deputy Minister...

Minister of Defence (1964–1991) Longest serving Kliment Voroshilov 6 November 1925 – 7 May 1940 Ministry of Defense Status Abolished Reports to Premier...

by Germaniawerft at Kiel as yard number 600 and commissioned on 31 August 1940. In seven patrols, she sank eight ships for a total of 28,415 gross register...

duration than Stalin and the campaign's commander Kliment Voroshilov. The resultant Winter War (1939–1940) did not deliver the immediate success the Soviet side...

force by 1940–41, but Budyonny was never criticised for being on the wrong side of the argument, being a faithful ally of Stalin and Voroshilov. Budyonny...

Werner von Blomberg in Germany; the Defense Commissar Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in the Soviet Union; Benito Mussolini in Italy and Sir Thomas Inskip in...

Alexandrovich Khmelnitsky (Russian: Борис Александрович Хмельницкий; born on 27 June 1940 in Ussuriysk, died on 16 February 2008 in Moscow) was a Russian theatre and...

requested a meeting with Soviet military negotiator Kliment Voroshilov. On 25 August, Voroshilov told them that "in view of the changed political situation...

Construction Council was a decorative political committee chaired by Kliment Voroshilov and later Vyacheslav Molotov; it served as a proxy for announcing decisions...

Frinovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Фрино́вский; 7 February 1898 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official who served as a deputy head of the NKVD...

Their single rudder meant that they were not very maneuverable. Kirov and Voroshilov were fitted with a massive tetrapod foremast, but this proved to restrict...

(1925) Kliment Voroshilov (1925–34) People's Commissars for Defence (1934–1946) Kliment Voroshilov (1934–40) Semyon Timoshenko (1940–41) Joseph Stalin...

Europe, setting up the Eastern Bloc and leading to the Cold War. Kliment Voroshilov was the leader of the Soviet Army during WW2. Georgy Zhukov was a Soviet...

by both dictatorships. On 5 March 1940, Lavrentiy Beria gave Molotov, along with Anastas Mikoyan, Kliment Voroshilov and Stalin, a note proposing the execution...