Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (died 1982)

Leonid Brezhnev

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982 as well as the fourth chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.…

List of heads of state of the Soviet Union

The Constitution of the Soviet Union recognised the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the earlier Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Congress of Soviets as the highest organs of state authority in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) between legislative…

December 19

Day of the year

December 19 is the 353rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 12 days remain until the end of the year.