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  1. Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's eventual successor as general secretary, was chairman of the committee in charge of managing Brezhnev's funeral, held on 15 November 1982, five days after his death. The funeral was attended by forty‑seven heads and deputy heads of state, twenty‑three heads and deputy heads of government, forty heads of foreign government ministries, six leaders of foreign ...

  2. In the 1980s, with Yuri Andropov occupying the former seat of power of Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Stalin, and Lenin, the KGB is unlikely to lose any of its power or responsibilities. Andropov will take care of that if only because of his need to protect his political flank from the threats coming from the Soviet military.

  3. Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov[ a ] (15 June [ O.S. 2 June] 1914 – 9 February 1984) [ 2 ] was a Soviet politician who was the sixth leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taking office in late 1982 and serving until his death in 1984. Earlier in his career, Andropov served as the ...

  4. Nov 13, 2020 · Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev’s eventual successor as general secretary, was chairman of the committee in charge of managing Brezhnev’s funeral, held on 15 November 1982, five days after his death. Brezhnev had struggled with several ailments since 1974, most notably heart disease, leukemia, jaw cancer, emphysema and circulatory disease, all of which had been exacerbated by his heavy smoking and ...

  5. Yuri Andropov. Yuri Andropov (1914-1984) was a former diplomat and KGB chief who became Soviet leader in late 1982, after the death of Leonid Brezhnev. A communist hardliner, Andropov served as leader of the Soviet Union briefly between late 1982 and his death in 1984. Andropov was born in southern Russia, the son of a railway bureaucrat.

  6. Sep 14, 2024 · Yury Andropov (born June 15 [June 2, Old Style], 1914, Nagutskoye, Russia—died February 9, 1984, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was the head of the Soviet Union ’s KGB (State Security Committee) from 1967 to 1982 and his country’s leader as general secretary of the Communist Party ’s Central Committee from November 1982 until his death 15 ...

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  8. ones, in the Andropov era for both the Soviet peopl e at home and the USSR's adversaries abroad. Many in the West were surprised by Yuri Andropov's rapid seizure of power in the Soviet Union following Leonid Brezhnev's death in Novembe r 1982 . Speculation had been widespread among Western pundits and analysts during the preceding several