History of Russia: The exhibition to the 135th anniversary of the birth of K. E. Voroshilov in Saint-Petersburg

February 4, 2016 at the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps (St. Petersburg) is opened the exhibition "And the first marshal will lead us into the battle". To the 135th anniversary of the birth of K. E. Voroshilov".

The exhibition is devoted to the biography of one of the most significant and at the same time controversial figures of the Soviet era - Kliment Yefimovich Voroshilov.

K. E. Voroshilov, Russian revolutionist, Soviet military commander, statesman and party activist, a member of the Civil War, Marshal of the Soviet Union, was born on 23 January (4 February) 1881, in the village of Upper Ekaterinoslav province (now Lisichansk of the Luhansk region), in family of the railway man.

The exhibition presents a set of original documents from the collection of the museum dedicated to Voroshilov, among them his certificate confirming that he is the commander of the Tsaritsyno Front (1918), the telegram to K. E. Voroshilov, signed by V. I. Lenin and I. V. Stalin (1920).

Unique photos depicted various episodes from the life of Marshal – the visit of the Central Artillery Design Bureau of the IEC of the USSR (1943), the presence of Voroshilov and Frunze on parade on May 1, 1925, and others.

The museum contains a large amount of visual material dedicated to this legendary figure. For the exhibition were selected a variety of prints, posters, drawings, and portraits of K. E. Voroshilov and other personalities of the time - color lithograph "Stalin, Molotov and Voroshilov near the bed of the sick Gorky", an engraved picture of Stalin, Voroshilov and Parkhomenko at Tsaritsyno, lithography with a pattern depicting Stalin, Voroshilov, Timoshenko and Budyonny over the map in 1941, the medal in honor of K. E. Voroshilov. Among the memorial objects - submachine gun of the Shpagin system, given by workers of the plant № 367 to Marshal Voroshilov.