Vladimir Voroshilov

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Vladimir Voroshilov
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Born(1930-12-18)18 December 1930
Died10 March 2001(2001-03-10) (aged 70)
OccupationTelevision presenter, television producer

Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov (Russian: Влади́мир Я́ковлевич Вороши́лов, born name Vladimir Kolmanovich, 18 December 1930 in Simferopol – 10 March 2001 in Peredelkino, Moscow Oblast) was an author, producer and anchorman of the television show What? Where? When?, and a member of the . He served from 1989 as president of the International Association of Clubs.

Biography[]

Voroshilov was born as Vladimir Kolmanovich[1] in Simferopol, to senior ministerial official Yakov Davidovich Kolmanovich and his wife Vera Borisovna, a seamstress. The family were in 1943 evacuated to Moscow.

In Moscow, Voroshilov attended an artistic school for gifted children, graduating to the faculty of painting at the Estonian SSR Academy of Arts. He later studied also at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). In 1954 he spent a year in Germany, as an artist in the theatre of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany.[2] In 1955—1965, with MKhAT, he was involved in operatic theatre. He became a producer at the Contemporary and at the Taganka Theatre.

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