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Bookmark or Share- Leonid Brezhnev | Biography, Cold War, & Facts | BritannicaLeonid Brezhnev (born December 19, 1906, Kamenskoye, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine]—died November 10, 1982, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Soviet statesman and Communist Party official who was, in effect, the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years.
- Leonid Brezhnev - WikipediaLeonid 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
- Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev - Encyclopedia.comBrezhnev, Leonid Ilyich (1906–82) Soviet statesman, effective ruler from the mid-1960s until his death. He rose through party ranks to become secretary to the central committee of the Soviet Communist Party (1952) and a member of the Presidium (later Politburo) (1957).
- Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev - WikipediaLeonid Brezhnev was the leader of the CPSU from 1964 until his death in 1982, whose eighteen-year tenure has been recognized for developing the most powerful military, [1] and for social and economic stagnation in the late Soviet Union.
- Brezhnev, Leonid (1906–1982) - Encyclopedia.comSoviet leader from 1964 to 1982. Born in Kamenskoye (renamed Dneprodzerzhinsk in 1936) in Ukraine, where his father was a metalworker, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev entered the Kursk Agricultural Technical Institute in 1923, graduating in 1927.
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