Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War.
Timoshenko in the 1940s
Timoshenko and Georgy Zhukov at the maneuvers of the Kiev Military District, 1940
Monument to Timoshenko in Furmanivka, Ukraine, June 2014
Kliment Yefremovich "Klim" Voroshilov, was a prominent Soviet military officer and politician during the Stalin era. He was one of the original five Marshals of the Soviet Union, the second highest mi
Semyon Timoshenko
…Front during the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. In early 1940, Timoshenko took over the command of Soviet troops in the Winter War in Finland from Kliment Voroshilov and turned the tide for the Red Army. In May 1940, he was named a Marshal of the Soviet Union and the People's Commissar for Defence. In the latter…
Voroshilov with his teacher Semyon Ryzhkov c. 1898–1901
Voroshilov with Grigory Petrovsky in 1913
Voroshilov with Lenin among delegates of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party in Moscow, 1921