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Vladimir Voroshilov (Template:Lang-ru, born name Vladimir Kalmanovich, 18 December 1930, Simferopol — 10 March 2001, 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 of What? Where? When?.

Biography

Voroshilov was born as Vladimir Kalmanovich in Simferopol, to senior ministerial official Yakov Davidovich Kalmanovich 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 with the theatre group of a Soviet military detachment. In 19551956, with MKhAT, he was involved in operatic theatre. He become a producer at the Contemporary Theatre and at the Teatr Na Taganka.

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