A further change was democratisation at the top of the party hierarchy, as Voroshilov noted at a Presidium meeting in 1954.

Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov (,, Klyment Okhrimovych Voroshylov ), popularly known as Klim Voroshilov () ( 4 February 1881 – 2 December 1969 ) was a Soviet military officer, politician, and statesman.

Voroshilov was born in the settlement of Verkhnye, Bakhmut district ( uyezd ), Yekaterinoslav Governorate ( now part of Lysychansk city in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine ), in the Russian Empire, into a railway worker's family of Russian ethnicity.

Voroshilov was active as a commander of the Southern Front during the Russian Civil War and the Polish-Soviet War while with the 1st Cavalry Army.

As Political Commissar serving co-equally with Stalin, Voroshilov was responsible for the morale of the 1st Cavalry Army, which was composed chiefly of peasants from southern Russia.

Voroshilov was elected to the Central Committee in 1921 and remained a member until 1961.

In 1925, after the death of Mikhail Frunze, Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, a post he held until 1934.

Voroshilov was made a full member of the newly formed Politburo in 1926, remaining a member until 1960.

Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Defence in 1934 and a Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1935.

During World War II, Voroshilov was a member of the State Defense Committee.

Voroshilov was then made Deputy Premier responsible for cultural matters.

After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Voroshilov was made commander of the short-lived Northwestern Direction, controlling several fronts.

In 1952, Voroshilov was appointed a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee.

Stalin's death on 5 March 1953 prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( i. e., the head of state ) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

Voroshilov was again re-elected to the Central Committee in 1966.

Voroshilov was awarded a second medal of Hero of the Soviet Union 1968.

The KV series of tanks, used in World War II, was named after Voroshilov.

Voroshilov was married to Ekaterina Davidovna, born Golda Gorbman, who came from a Jewish Ukrainian family from Mardarovka.

The day after the Pact was signed, the French and British military negotiation delegation urgently requested a meeting with Soviet military negotiator Kliment Voroshilov.

The purges were carried out by Stalin's successive police chiefs, Nikolai Yezhov was the chief organiser and Kliment Voroshilov, Lazar Kaganovich and Molotov were intimately involved in the processes.

On 11 October 1931 Gorky read his fairy tale " A Girl and Death " to his visitors Joseph Stalin, Kliment Voroshilov and Vyacheslav Molotov, an event that was later depicted by Viktor Govorov in his painting.

Voroshilov commanded Soviet troops during the Winter War from November 1939 to January 1940, but, due to his poor planning and overall incompetence, the Red Army suffered about 185, 000 casualties.

This had begun the previous November, under the disastrous command of Kliment Voroshilov.

On November 20, the rank was conferred on five people: People's Commissar of Defence and veteran Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, and three senior commanders, Vasily Blyukher, Semyon Budyonny, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky.

In the November 1945 elections, Hungary, the Hungarian Communist Party, under Gerő and Mátyás Rákosi got 17 % of the vote, compared to 57 % for the Smallholders ' Party, but the Soviet Commander in Hungary, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov installed a coalition government with Communists in key posts.

On November 30, 1939, forces of the USSR under the command of Kliment Voroshilov attacked Finland in what became known as the Winter War, starting with the invasion of Finnish Karelia and bombing civilian boroughs of Helsinki.

On November 5, 1935, the city was renamed Voroshilovgrad () in honour of Soviet military commander and politician Kliment Voroshilov.

On 2 November Junkers Ju 88s of KG 51 scored several hits on the cruiser Voroshilov, and put it out of action for months.

The four hundred guests included Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov and Defense Minister Kliment Voroshilov ; Communist Party luminaries Nikolai Bukharin, Lazar Kaganovich, and Karl Radek ; Soviet Marshals Alexander Yegorov, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and Semyon Budyonny ; and the writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Full and previous names include: Marshal Voroshilov Military Academy of the WPRA General Staff ; General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR ; General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

Two towns were also named after him: Voroshilovgrad in Ukraine ( now changed back to the historical Luhansk ) and Voroshilov in the Soviet Far East ( now renamed Ussuriysk after the Ussuri river ), as well as the General Staff Academy in Moscow.

Molotov became a leading figure in the " Stalinist centre " of the party, which also included Kliment Voroshilov and Sergo Ordzhonikidze.

The Kliment Voroshilov ( KV ) tanks were a series of Soviet Red Army heavy tanks, named after the Soviet defense commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov.

Because Kliment Voroshilov had fallen out of political favour, the new heavy tank series was named the Iosif Stalin tank, after Iosif ( Joseph ) Stalin.

Voroshilov personally signed 185 documented execution lists, fourth among the Soviet leadership after Molotov, Stalin and Kaganovich.

Voroshilov, Malenkov, and Khrushchev brought about 26 June 1953 arrest of Lavrenty Beria after Stalin's death.

Stalin, Yezhov, and Marshall Voroshilov orchestrated the arrest and execution of thousands of Soviet military officers after Tukhachevsky was shot.

The city was renamed Voroshilovsk on May 5, 1935, after Kliment Voroshilov, but the original name was restored in 1943.

The name of the city was changed to Voroshilov in 1935 after Kliment Voroshilov.

On January 5, 1970, after Voroshilov died, the name was changed again to Voroshilovgrad.

First established in 1827 as the Advance Officers ' Class of the Imperial Russian Navy and later the Nikolayev Naval Academy and reorganized as the Petrograd Maritime Academy in 1917, and at various times renamed as the WPRF Naval Academy, the Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov Naval Academy and the Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko Naval Academy, it gained its current name and title in 1990.