Marina Konstantinovna Voroshilova (Russian: Мар′ина Констант′иновна Ворош′илова) (March 16, 1922 – November 19, 1986) was a Soviet virologist and corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1969).
Voroshilova was born on March 16, 1922, in Simferopol in the family of attorney at law Konstantin Konstantinovich Voroshilov, a politician of the White Movement of Crimea, who was the Chairman of the Council of People's Representatives in 1917-1918.
[citation needed] At the end of 1940s she started to work as a clinician and epidemiologist investigating outbreaks of poliomyelitis in Soviet Union and in the Russian-occupied parts of Germany, where she isolated new strains of poliovirus and other enteroviruses, including viral strains that resulted in diseases similar to polio when introduced to monkey.
[6][7] In 1958-1959, together with Mikhail Chumakov, she organized the world's first mass production and clinical trials of a live polio vaccine made from attenuated Sabin strains.
[1][2] As an eleven-year old child, Voroshilova had diphtheria and her mother's colleague, the virologist Mikhail Chumakov, helped her recover.