Klim (given name)

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Klim is a masculine given name, sometimes a diminutive form of Kliment. It is borne by:

  • Klim Churyumov (1937–2016), Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer
  • Klim Gavrilov (born 2000), Russian race car driver
  • Klim Kostin (born 1999), Russian ice hockey player
  • Klim Prykhodko (born 2000), Ukrainian footballer
  • Klim Shipenko (born 1983), Russian film director, screenwriter, actor and producer
  • Kliment Voroshilov (1881–1969), Soviet officer and politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
  • Klim Savur, pseudonym of Dmytro Klyachkivsky (1911–1945), a commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during World War II
  • the title character of The Life of Klim Samgin, a four-volume novel by Maxim Gorky