Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (born 1914)

Yuri Andropov

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984

Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1982 until his death in 1984. He previously served as the Chairman of the KGB from 1967 until 1982.