Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 19, 1906
Died
Nov 10, 1982
Place of Birth
Kamenskoe, Yekaterinoslavskaya guberniya, Russian Empire
Credits
41 titles
Leonid Brezhnev
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).
Known For
Filmography
The Helsinki Effect
Self (archive footage)
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism
Self (archive footage)
Аркадий Райкин. Королю дозволено всё
Self (archive footage)
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Spy Who Fell to Earth
Self (archive footage)
Going to Hell
Self (archive)
Agnelli
Self (archive footage)
A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
Self (archive footage)
Код доступа
Self
Legends of Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage)
Burden of the Gypsies
Himself (archive)
Palme
Self (archive footage)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Self (archive footage)
Space Sailors
Self (archive footage)
Disco and Atomic War
Self (archive footage)
Георгий Бурков. Гамлет советского кино
Self
:03 from Gold
Self (archive footage)
Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team
Self (archive footage)
Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Self (archive footage)
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Self (archive footage)
Case of Joseph Brodsky
Self (archive footage)
Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
Self (archive footage)
Л.И.Брежнев
Леонид Ильич Брежнев
Red Star Over Khyber
Self
Memory of the People
(archive footage)
Kyiv Symphony
Self (archive footage)
Trial
Self (archive footage)
O Sport, You Are Peace!
Self - Opens the Olympics
Karpov Plays with Karpov
Self
Incendiaries from the Celestial Empire
Self (archive footage)
Beijing's Cards
Self (archive footage)
Spring in Phnom Penh
Self (archive footage)
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Self (archive footage)
Maoism: A Tragedy for China
Self (archive footage)
The Story of the Communist
Himself
The Society of the Spectacle
Self (archive footage)
Venceremos, solidaridad
Self (archive footage)
A Time For Peace
Self
Czechoslovakia 1968
Self (archive footage)
Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti