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).
Filmography
all 50
Movies 47
self 46
TV Shows 3
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
The Art of Dissent (2021)
1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)
Going to Hell (2019)
Agnelli (2017)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым (2016)
Burden of the Gypsies (2016)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
Space Sailors (2010)
Disco and Atomic War (2009)
68 (2008)
:03 from Gold (2002)
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team (2002)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 (1996)
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House (1991)
Л.И.Брежнев (1988)
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)
The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
Venceremos, solidaridad (1973)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1906-12-19
Deathday1982-11-10 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceKamianske, Ukraine
Religionatheism
RelationshipsViktoria Brezhneva (1928 - 1982)
ChildrenYuri Brezhnev, Galina Brezhneva
FatherIlya Brezhnev
MotherNatalia Brezhneva
SiblingsYakov Brezhnev
CitizenshipsSoviet Union
ResidencesMoscow, Russia
Also Known AsLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Леонид Ильич Брежнев, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, Леонид Брежнев, Леонід Брежнєв, Léonid Brejnev
AwardsJubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev", Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv", Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus", Order of the National Flag, Order of the October Revolution, Medal "For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Order of the Red Star, Order of Karl Marx, Gold medal with hero rank of GDR, Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw", Order of Sukhbaatar, Star of People's Friendship, Order of Victory, Order of the Red Banner, Lenin Peace Prize, Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary, Order of May, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Liberation of Prague", Order of Lenin, Medal "For the Defence of Odessa", Order of the White Lion, Lenin Prize, Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Medal "For Battle Merit", Medal for Battle Merit, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic", "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, Order of José Martí, Order of Freedom (Yugoslavia), Order of Freedom, Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Gold Star medal, Gold Star, Order of Georgi Dimitrov, Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945, Gold Star Order, Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands", Order of Klement Gottwald, Hero of Labour, Star of the Republic of Indonesia, Order of Hồ Chí Minh, Order of the Victory of Socialism, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, Dimitrov Prize medal, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic, Gold medal of Karl Marx, Jubilee Medal "30 years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Army", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution", Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms", Medal "For Bravery Before the Enemy", Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945, Order of Playa Girón, National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Order of the Sun of Liberty, Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania, United Nations Peace Medal, Commemorative medals of the Czechoslovak army abroad, Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Gold Mercury International Award, Collar of the Order of the White Lion, Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class, Grand Cross of the Order of Military Virtue, Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish People's Republic, Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland, Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star
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