# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/konstantin-chernenko
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:20:29.034Z

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name: "Konstantin Chernenko"
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description: "He led the Soviet Union for thirteen months while visibly dying. Konstantin Chernenko was the last of the old guard, a placeholder general secretary so frail that power operatives ran the country around him while he coughed through ceremonies."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born to a poor Siberian family in 1911, Chernenko joined the Komsomol in 1929 and the Communist Party in 1931. He climbed through propaganda posts until 1948, when he landed in Moldavia under Leonid Brezhnev—a connection that would define his career. When Brezhnev took power in 1964, Chernenko followed him to Moscow to head the General Department, controlling Politburo agendas and drafting decrees. He became a full Politburo member in 1978. After Yuri Andropov's death, Chernenko was elected General Secretary on 13 February 1984, then Chairman of the Presidium that April. But his health was already gone, his authority hollow; Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko formed an unofficial triumvirate that actually ran things. He died on 10 March 1985, and Mikhail Gorbachev took over the next day.