   {{infobox officeholder |name=leonid brezhnev ÐÐµÐ¾Ð½Ð¸Ð´ ÐÑÐµÐ¶Ð½ÐµÐ² |image=leonid breÅ¾nÄv (bundesarchiv).jpg |caption=brezhnev in east berlin in 1967 |citizenship=soviet |nationality= russian |office=general secretary of the central committee of the communist party of the soviet union |term_start = 14 october 1964 |term_end = 10 november 1982 |predecessor = nikita khrushchev |successor = yuri andropov |office2 = chairman of the presidium of the supremesoviet of the soviet union |term_start2 = 16 june 1977 |term_end2 = 10 november 1982 |predecessor2 = nikolai podgorny |successor2 = yuri andropov |term_start3 = 7 may 1960 |term_end3 = 15 july 1964 |predecessor3 = kliment voroshilov |successor3 = anastas mikoyan |office4 = chairman of the bureau of the centralcommittee of the russian sfsr |term_start4 = 16 november 1964 |term_end4 = 8 april 1966 |predecessor4 = nikita khrushchev |successor4 = office abolished |1blankname4 = deputy |1namedata4 = andrei kirilenko |office5 = full member of the 20thâ21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th politburo |term_start5 = 27 february 1956 |term_end5 = 10 november 1982 |office6 = member of the 20thâ21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th secretariat |term_start6 = 29 june 1957 |term_end6 = 10 november 1982 |office7 = candidate member of the 19th, 20thâ21st [[politburo of the cent
1906_births 1982_deaths Brezhnev_family Burials_at_the_Kremlin_Wall_Necropolis Cold_War_leaders Commanders_Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_White_Rose_of_Finland Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_Star_of_Romania Communist_Party_of_Kazakhstan_politicians Deaths_from_myocardial_infarction First_Secretaries_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Moldova Grand_Cross_of_the_Order_of_the_Sun_(Peru) Grand_Crosses_of_the_Order_of_Polonia_Restituta Grand_Crosses_of_the_Order_of_the_White_Lion Heads_of_state_of_the_Soviet_Union Heads_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union Heroes_of_Socialist_Labour Heroes_of_the_Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic Heroes_of_the_Mongolian_People\'s_Republic Heroes_of_the_Soviet_Union International_opponents_of_apartheid_in_South_Africa Lenin_Peace_Prize_recipients Leonid_Brezhnev Marshals_of_the_Soviet_Union National_Heroes_of_the_Republic_of_Cuba People_from_Dniprodzerzhynsk People_from_Yekaterinoslav_Governorate People_of_the_Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan People_of_the_Vietnam_War Politburo_of_the_Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union_members Politicians_of_the_Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic Quadruple_Heroes_of_the_Soviet_Union Recipients_of_the_Czechoslovak_War_Cross Recipients_of_the_Order_of_Bogdan_Khmelnitsky_(Soviet_Union),_2nd_class Recipients_of_the_Order_of_Georgi_Dimitrov Recipients_of_the_Order_of_Karl_Marx Recipients_of_the_Order_of_Klement_Gottwald Recipients_of_the_Order_of_Lenin,_eight_times Recipients_of_the_Order_of_Sukhbaatar Recipients_of_the_Order_of_Victory Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_Cross_of_Grunwald,_2nd_class Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_October_Revolution,_twice Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_Patriotic_War,_1st_class Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_Red_Banner,_twice Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_Red_Star Recipients_of_the_Order_of_the_Yugoslav_Star Russian_communists Russians_in_Ukraine