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Konstantin Chernenko

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1911-1985) · Russia · Politicians · Lived 1912 to 1985 · aged 72

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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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A life in dates

1985Died10 March 19851984Named Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet UnionOffice11 April 1984 to 10 March 1985Named General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionOffice13 February 1984 to 10 March 1985Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1982Lenin PrizeAward1981Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of Klement GottwaldAwardOrder of LeninAward1978Named Member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central CommitteeOffice27 November 1978 to 10 March 19851977Named Candidate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central CommitteeOffice3 October 1977 to 27 November 19781976Named Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionOffice5 March 1976 to 13 February 1984Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1971Order of LeninAward1965Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1957Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1949Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1912Born18 September 1912

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Awards

Order of Lenin1984
Hero of Socialist Labour1984
Lenin Prize1982
Order of Lenin1981
Hero of Socialist Labour1981
Order of Klement Gottwald1981
Order of Lenin1976
Hero of Socialist Labour1976
Order of Lenin1971
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1965
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1957
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1949
USSR State Prize
Order of Karl Marx
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Karl Marx Gold Medal
Order of Georgi Dimitrov
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
Order of Sukhbaatar
Order of the National Flag
Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"
Order of the National Flag, 1st class

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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.

Country
Russia
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 1985 · aged 72

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