Voroshilov
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Kliment Efremovich 1881–1969, Soviet general: president of the Soviet Union 1953–60.
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former name of Ussuriisk.
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Example Sentences
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Zhelezyankov’s education in the Voroshilov chemical defence academy enabled his rise from a regional party worker to the ranks of the Soviet elite.
From The Guardian
For a few moments, it must have seemed to those in the room—not just Svetlana but also Lavrenty Beria, the chief of secret police; Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's ultimate successor; and Stalin's henchmen, among them Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov—as if the dictator were casting a final curse.
From Slate
At the Voroshilov General Staff Academy in Moscow, where senior officers play war games on huge maps, an instructor stressed that for the past two years, the scenarios have $ always begun with the other side shooting first.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1960 he succeeded Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in the post of Soviet President.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nikita Khrushchev, who had stonily ignored Voroshilov's party crashing, chatted with newsmen in his many guises.
From Time Magazine Archive
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