Leonid Brezhnev

Biography

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, born in Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslav governorate, Russian Empire — Soviet statesman, politician and party figure who held the highest leadership position in the CPSU for 18 years (from 1964 until his death in 1982). First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1964-1966 and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee from 1966 to 1982. Marshal of the Soviet Union (1976). Four times Hero of the Soviet Union (1966, 1976, 1978, 1981), Hero of Socialist Labor (1961). Candidate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee (1952-1953; 1956-1957), Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1952-1953; 1956-1960, 1963-1964). In 1960-1964 — Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU for the RSFSR from 1964 to 1966. Deputy of the Council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (3rd-10th convocations, 1950-1982). Member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the Union of Writers of the USSR. Cavalier of eight Orders of Lenin. Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For Strengthening Peace Among Nations" (1973) and the Lenin Prize for Literature (1979). In 1978 he was awarded the Order of Victory (in 1989 this award was cancelled by decree signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev as being contrary to the statute of the order). In total, Brezhnev had 117 Soviet and foreign state awards. He participated in the Great Patriotic War and the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945 (political officer of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front).

Known For

Legends of Cinema

Код доступа

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым

Palme

The Society of the Spectacle

The Spy Who Fell to Earth

:03 from Gold

All Movies (31)

• The Helsinki Effect2025 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Cars We Drove into Capitalism2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• 1979: Big Bang of the Present2019 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• The Spy Who Fell to Earth2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Going to Hell2019 · as Self (archive)
• Agnelli2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Burden of the Gypsies2016 · as Himself (archive)
• Palme2012 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Space Sailors2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Disco and Atomic War2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Георгий Бурков. Гамлет советского кино2008 · as Self
• :03 from Gold2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 21996 · as Self (archive footage)
• Case of Joseph Brodsky1991 · as Self (archive footage)
• Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House1991 · as Self (archive footage)
• Red Star Over Khyber1984 · as Self
• Memory of the People1982 · as (archive footage)
• Kyiv Symphony1982 · as Self (archive footage)
• O Sport, You Are Peace!1981 · as Self - Opens the Olympics
• Karpov Plays with Karpov1980 · as Self
• Incendiaries from the Celestial Empire1979 · as Self (archive footage)
• Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder1979 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Story of the Communist1976 · as Himself
• The Society of the Spectacle1974 · as Self (archive footage)
• Venceremos, solidaridad1973 · as Self (archive footage)
• A Time For Peace1973 · as Self
• Czechoslovakia 19681969 · as Self (archive footage)
• Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti1967

All TV Shows (5)

• Код доступа2017 · as Self
• Legends of Cinema2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Faith of the Century: A History of Communism1999 · as Self (archive footage)
• Л.И.Брежнев1988 · as Леонид Ильич Брежнев