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Leonid and Viktoria Brezhnev as a young couple, 1927. She was born in Belgorod in 1908 as Viktoria Petrovna Denisova (Дени́сова). [1] It is claimed by historian Robert Service that she was of Jewish ancestry but Denisova herself has denied having any Jewish ancestry. [2] She met Leonid Brezhnev in 1926 and they
Galina Leonidovna Brezhneva (Russian: Галина Леонидовна Брежнева; 18 April 1929 – 30 June 1998) was the daughter of Soviet politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, and his wife, Viktoria Brezhneva.
Brezhnev was given a state funeral after three full days of national mourning, then buried in an individual tomb on Red Square at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's eventual successor as general secretary, was chairman of the committee in charge of managing Brezhnev's funeral, held on 15 November 1982, five days after his death.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev [b] [c] (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) [4] was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.
Leonid Brezhnev: 7 May 1960 – 15 July 1964 5 Ashkhen Mikoyan (née Tumanyan) Anastas Mikoyan: 15 July 1964 – 9 December 1965 6 Natalya Podgornaya (née Nazarova) Nikolai Podgorny: 9 December 1965 – 16 June 1977 7 Viktoria Brezhneva (née Denisova) Leonid Brezhnev: 16 June 1977 – 10 November 1982 8 Tatyana Andropova (née Lebedeva) Yuri ...
In 1964, the Kremlin circle stripped him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. Khrushchev was born in 1894 in a village in western Russia . He was employed as a metal worker during his youth, and he was a political commissar during the Russian Civil War .
One morning at dawn, Brezhnev awoke to see the sun rising. He called out "Good morning, our red sun!" the sun replied, "Good morning, Leonid Il'ich, I wish you new successes for the good of the Motherland." At noon Brezhnev stepped outside and saw the sun high in the heavens. He called out "Good afternoon, bright sun!" The sun replied, "Good ...
Brezhnev was visiting East Germany at the time to celebrate the anniversary of its founding as a Communist nation. [3] On 5 October, East Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a ten-year agreement of mutual support under which East Germany would provide ships, machinery and chemical equipment to the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union would ...