Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of...

He was the son of Konstantin Chernenko, the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Faina Chernenko. During the rule of...

Anna Chernenko (Russian: Анна Черненко, née Lyubimova; 3 September 1913 – 25 December 2010) was the wife of Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. Anna Dmitrievna...

Albert Chernenko (1935–2009), Russian philosopher and son of Konstantin Anastasiya Chernenko (born 1990), Ukrainian triathlete Anna Chernenko (1913–2010)...

months after his appointment, an even older leader, 72-year-old Konstantin Chernenko, was elected to the general secretariat. His rule lasted for little...

People bearing the name Konstantin include: Konstantin of Rostov (1186–1218), Grand Prince of Vladimir Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985), Soviet politician...

Kremlin wall. Andropov was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, who seemed to mirror Andropov's tenure. Chernenko had already been afflicted with severe...

Brezhnev (1964–1982) and continued under Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) and Konstantin Chernenko (1984–1985). It is sometimes called the "Brezhnevian Stagnation"...

dignitaries at Red Square ended with the funeral of General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko in March 1985. The Kremlin Wall Necropolis was designated a protected...

Gorbachev's main rival in the succession struggle after the death of Konstantin Chernenko in March 1985, the third Soviet leader to die in just a few short...

Leonid Brezhnev—following the brief tenures of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko—in 1985, the Politburo elected Gorbachev as general secretary, the...

of Soviet leadership consisting of Yuri Andropov (1982–1984) and Konstantin Chernenko (1984–1985). This phase in the Cold War concluded in 1985 with the...

death of Andropov), and for a third time in 1985 (after the death of Chernenko). He was one of the oldest members of the Communist Party of the Soviet...

cut defense spending. For comparison, some of his rivals such as Konstantin Chernenko were skeptical of a continued high military budget. Aged 68, Andropov...

November 10, 1982) Yuri Andropov (November 12, 1982 – February 9, 1984) Konstantin Chernenko (February 13, 1984 – March 10, 1985) Mikhail Gorbachev (March 11...

1908) March 8 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914) March 10 Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the...

Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, and Brezhnev's long-time associate Konstantin Chernenko. On 28 August, the Commission considered Soviet military intervention...

a long-term vision" for the USSR. By the time Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko rose to the Soviet leadership, Gromyko frequently found himself advocating...

in office of natural causes (Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko), one held the position in a temporary role (Vasily Kuznetsov), and...

1985 (following two short-term elderly leaders, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, who quickly died in succession), rapid steps were taken to transform...

in the late USSR. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Chernenko is lying in Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. He is old and infirm...

the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Konstantin Chernenko. Chernenko died two weeks later. "УлГИК - 24 февраля 1985 года". ulgik...

variously to Yuri Andropov, Dmitry Ustinov, Andrei Gromyko, and Konstantin Chernenko. Marcia Williams, private secretary and later Political Secretary...

avoiding any radical reforms. After Brezhnev's death, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko were able to rule the country in the same way as Brezhnev had. Mikhail...

do so by Konstantin Chernenko. Upon Brezhnev's death in 1982, Tikhonov supported Chernenko's candidacy for the General Secretaryship. Chernenko lost the...

province, in anticipation of a renewed assault. In February 1984, Konstantin Chernenko replaced Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party...

of Brezhnev and continued under his successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. In late 1979, the Soviet Union's military intervened in the ongoing...

was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, then 72, who lasted thirteen months before his death and replacement with Gorbachev. Chernenko became the third...

during the Brezhnev years and the later reigns of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms helped spawn factionalism within the...

1977, the last four general secretaries—Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Gorbachev—simultaneously served as de jure head of state during...