The Generals of WWII
Generals from Soviet Union
Voroshilov, Kliment Efremovich
Marshal of Soviet Union
* 4th of February 1881
† 2nd of December 1969
(Климент Ефремович Ворошилов)
Promotions
| 1935-11-20 | Marshal of Soviet Union |
Service
| 1918-03-XX | – | 1918-04-XX | Commanding Officer 1st Lugansk Partisan Socialist Detachment |
| 1918-04-15 | – | 1918-07-XX | Commanding Officer 5th Army |
| 1918-07-05 | – | 1918-10-XX | Commanding Officer Don Soviet Republic Forces |
| 1918-08-04 | – | 1918-09-23 | Member of the Revolutionary Military Council, Northern Caucasian Military District |
| 1918-09-17 | – | 1918-10-03 | Deputy Commander in Chief Southern Front |
| 1918-09-17 | – | 1918-10-03 | Member of the Revolutionary Military Council, Southern Front |
| 1918-10-XX | – | 1918-11-XX | Commander in Chief Tsaritsyn Front |
| 1918-10-03 | – | 1918-12-18 | Commanding Officer 10th Army |
| 1918-11-28 | – | 1919-01-29 | Member of the Provisional Workers' & Peasants' Government of Ukraine |
| 1919-01-29 | – | 1919-06-07 | People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs, Ukraine SSR |
| 1919-05-10 | – | 1919-06-14 | Commander in Chief Kharkov Military District |
| 1919-06-04 | – | 1919-07-18 | Commanding Officer 14th Army |
| 1919-08-XX | – | 1919-10-XX | Commander in Chief Ukrainian Internal Front |
| 1919-10-17 | – | 1919-11-10 | Commanding Officer 61st Rifle Division |
| 1919-11-17 | – | 1923-10-26 | Member of the Revolutionary Military Council, 1st Cavalry Army |
| 1921-05-04 | – | 1924-04-11 | Commander in Chief Northern Caucasian Military District |
| 1924-04-11 | – | 1925-01-XX | Commander in Chief Moscow Military District |
| 1924-04-11 | – | 1925-01-XX | Member of the Revolutionary Military Council |
| 1925-01-26 | – | 1925-11-06 | Deputy People’s Commissar of Military & Naval Affairs |
| 1925-11-06 | – | 1934-06-20 | People’s Commissar of Military & Naval Affairs |
| 1934-06-20 | – | 1940-05-07 | People’s Commissar of Defence |
| 1938-03-13 | – | 1940-07-24 | Chairman of the Supreme Military Council |
| 1939-11-30 | – | 1940-03-12 | Commander in Chief Soviet Forces against Finland |
| 1939-12-09 | – | 1940-03-12 | Member of the High Command |
| 1940-05-07 | – | 1944-11-XX | Deputy People’s Commissar of Defence |
| 1940-05-07 | – | 1946-03-15 | Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars |
| 1940-05-07 | – | 1940-06-30 | Chairman of the Defence Committee, Council of People's Commissars |
| 1940-06-23 | – | 1941-07-10 | Chairman of the High Command |
| 1941-06-30 | – | 1944-11-22 | Member of the State Committee for Defence |
| 1941-07-10 | – | 1941-08-08 | Member of the High Command |
| 1941-07-10 | – | 1941-08-29 | Commander in Chief Northwestern Theatre |
| 1941-08-08 | – | 1945-02-17 | Member of the High Command |
| 1941-09-05 | – | 1941-09-12 | Commander in Chief Leningrad Front |
| 1941-10-12 | – | 1942-09-05 | Representative of the High Command for Troop Formation |
| 1942-02-15 | – | 1942-10-25 | Representative of the High Command to Volkhov Front |
| 1942-09-06 | – | 1942-11-19 | Commander in Chief of the Partisan Movement |
| 1943-05-XX | – | 1943-09-XX | Chairman of the Trophy Committee |
| 1944-11-XX | – | 1947-XX-XX | Chairman of the Allied Control Commission in Hungary |
| 1946-03-19 | – | 1953-03-XX | Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers |
| 1953-03-XX | – | 1960-05-XX | Chairman of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of Soviet Union |
| 1960-05-XX | – | 1969-11-10 | Member of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of Soviet Union |
Picture source: Courtesy of Auke de Vlieger