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Leonid Brezhnev

1906 - 1982

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) 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 (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. Brezhnev was born to a working-class family in Kamenskoye (now Kamianske, Ukraine) within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire. After the results of the October Revolution were finalized with the creation of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev joined the Communist party's youth league in 1923 before becoming an official party member in 1929. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Brezhnev is the 122nd most popular politician (down from 93rd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Politician.

Leonid Brezhnev was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982. He is most famous for his rule as a Soviet leader, and for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Among politicians, Leonid Brezhnev ranks 122 out of 19,576. Before him are Francisco Franco, Justinian I, Angela Merkel, Nikita Khrushchev, Muammar Gaddafi, and Harald V of Norway. After him are Nebuchadnezzar II, Basil II, Brutus the Younger, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, and Hirohito.

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Among people born in 1906, Leonid Brezhnev ranks 1. After him are Puyi, Adolf Eichmann, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Hannah Arendt, Dmitri Shostakovich, Grace Hopper, Kurt Gödel, Samuel Beckett, Aristotle Onassis, Ernst Chain, and Faisal of Saudi Arabia. Among people deceased in 1982, Leonid Brezhnev ranks 3. Before him are Huang Xianfan, and Grace Kelly. After him are Ayn Rand, Romy Schneider, Ingrid Bergman, Philip Noel-Baker, Henry Fonda, Carl Orff, Anna Freud, Roman Jakobson, and Arthur Rubinstein.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Leonid Brezhnev ranks 2 out of 1,365. Before him are Leon Trotsky (1879). After him are Hurrem Sultan (1502), Nikolai Gogol (1809), Golda Meir (1898), Edgar de Wahl (1867), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Leonid Brezhnev ranks 2. Before him are Leon Trotsky (1879). After him are Hurrem Sultan (1502), Golda Meir (1898), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), and Ivan Mazepa (1639).

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