On 10 November 1982 , Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev , the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union , died aged 76 after suffering a heart attack following years of serious ailments .
On 10 November 1982 , Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev , the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) and the fifth leader of the ] ] Soviet Union ] ] , died aged 75 after suffering a heart attack .