Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (60 photos)

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev - Born December 19, 1906. In 1927 he graduated from the agricultural technical school. In 1931, Brezhnev was admitted to the party. During World War II, he headed the army's political department. Until 1952, when Brezhnev was appointed one of the secretaries of the CPSU Central Committee, he held various positions in the party leadership in Ukraine and Moldova. After Stalin's death, Brezhnev was removed from his post as Secretary of the Central Committee and appointed Deputy Chief of the Main Political Directorate of the Army and Navy. Under the patronage of N.S. Khrushchev, since 1954, Brezhnev has exercised party leadership in the virgin lands of Kazakhstan, and in 1956 he returned to the post of Secretary of the Central Committee. After the fall of Khrushchev, Brezhnev assumed leadership of the CPSU. In 1978 he published three books of memoirs - “Malaya Zemlya”, “Virgin Land”, “Renaissance”, for which in 1979 he was awarded the Lenin Prize for Literature. Brezhnev died on November 10, 1982 in Moscow.