Vladimir Voroshilov

Vladimir Voroshilov
Born	(1930-12-18)18 December 1930 Simferopol, Soviet Union
Died	10 March 2001(2001-03-10) (aged 70) Peredelkino, Moscow Oblast
Occupation(s)	Television presenter, television producer

Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov (Template:Lang-ru, 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 Russian Academy of Television. He served from 1989 as president of the International Association of Clubs.

Biography

Voroshilov was born as Vladimir Kolmanovich 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. In 1955—1965, with MKhAT, he was involved in operatic theatre. He became a producer at the Contemporary and at the Taganka Theatre.

Monument on a tomb

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