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Konstantin Chernenko

1911 - 1985

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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (24 September [O.S. 11 September] 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1984 until his death a year later. Born to a poor family in Siberia, Chernenko joined the Komsomol in 1929 and became a full member of the party in 1931. After holding a series of propaganda posts, in 1948 he became the head of the propaganda department in Moldavia, serving under Leonid Brezhnev. After Brezhnev took over as First Secretary of the CPSU in 1964, Chernenko was appointed to head the General Department of the Central Committee. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Konstantin Chernenko is the 313th most popular politician (down from 298th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 40th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Politician.

Konstantin Chernenko was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1985. He died in office in 1985, and was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Among politicians, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 313 out of 19,576. Before him are Hu Jintao, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Alexander III of Russia, Park Chung-hee, Beatrix of the Netherlands, and François Mitterrand. After him are Batu Khan, Alp Arslan, Christian X of Denmark, Gaiseric, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, and Barack Obama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 4. Before him are Ronald Reagan, Josef Mengele, and Baba Vanga. After him are Naguib Mahfouz, Georges Pompidou, Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Władysław Szpilman, Luis Walter Alvarez, Todor Zhivkov, and Czesław Miłosz. Among people deceased in 1985, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 3. Before him are Marc Chagall, and Enver Hoxha. After him are Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, Charles Francis Richter, Macfarlane Burnet, Orson Welles, Rodney Robert Porter, Italo Calvino, Fernand Braudel, and Carl Schmitt.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 33 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander II of Russia (1818), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Isaac Asimov (1920), Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), and Alexander III of Russia (1845). After him are David Hilbert (1862), Yul Brynner (1920), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Georgy Zhukov (1896), and Nicholas I of Russia (1796).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Konstantin Chernenko ranks 13. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander II of Russia (1818), and Alexander III of Russia (1845). After him are Georgy Zhukov (1896), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), and Paul I of Russia (1754).

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