1906-12-19 Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
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).
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The Helsinki Effect | Self (archive footage) | 2025-02-21 |
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Колите, с които нахлухме в капитализма | Self (archive footage) | 2021-10-27 |
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Идущие к чёрту | Himself (archive) | 2019-01-08 |
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1979: Urknall der Gegenwart | Self - Politician (archive footage) | 2019-12-10 |
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The Spy Who Fell to Earth | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-01 |
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Agnelli | Self (archive footage) | 2017-12-18 |
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Бремя цыган | Himself (archive) | 2016-03-21 |
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Palme | 2012-09-14 | |
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Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu | Himself (archive footage) | 2010-10-29 |
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Fliegerkosmonauten | Self (archive footage) | 2010-01-21 |
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Disko ja tuumasõda | Self (archive footage) | 2009-04-10 |
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Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team | Self (archive footage) | 2002-01-08 |
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:03 from Gold | Self (archive footage) | 2002-06-18 |
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 | Self (archive footage) | 1996-02-20 |
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Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House | Self (archive footage) | 1991-01-01 |
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Память народа | (archive footage) | 1982-11-12 |
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Київська симфонія | Self (archive footage) | 1982-10-20 |
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О спорт, ты - мир! | self - opens the Olympics | 1981-09-18 |
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Карпов играет с Карповым | Self | 1980-01-01 |
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Безумие. Размышления о себестоимости убийства | Self (archive footage) | 1979-01-01 |
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Повесть о коммунисте | Himself | 1976-12-06 |
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La Société du spectacle | Self (archive footage) | 1974-05-01 |
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Venceremos, solidaridad | Self (archive footage) | 1973-12-31 |
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Czechoslovakia 1968 | Self (archive footage) | 1969-12-31 |
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Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti | 1967-10-17 |
