Leonid Brezhnev

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-12-19

Deathday

1982-11-10 (75 years old)

Birth Place

Kamianske, Ukraine

Religion

atheism

Relationships

Viktoria Brezhneva (1928-01-01 - 1982-11-10)

Children

Yuri Brezhnev, Galina Brezhneva

Father

Ilya Yakovlevich Brezhnev

Mother

Natalia Denisovna Brezhneva

Citizenships

Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

Residences

Moscow, Russia

Also Known As

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Леонид Ильич Брежнев, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, Леонид Брежнев, Леонід Брежнєв, Léonid Brejnev

Awards

Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw", Order of Sukhbaatar, Star of People's Friendship, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Victory, Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary, Order of May, Lenin Peace Prize, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Liberation of Prague", Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Medal "For the Defence of Odessa", Order of the White Lion, Lenin Prize, Gold medal with hero rank of GDR, Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South", Order of Karl Marx, Order of the Red Star, Order of the October Revolution, Order of the National Flag, Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus", Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv", Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev", Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms", Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Medal "For Battle Merit", Medal for Battle Merit, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic", Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad", Gold Star medal, Gold Star, "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal, Order of José Martí, Order of Freedom (Yugoslavia), Order of Freedom, Order of Georgi Dimitrov, Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945, Gold Star Order, Star of the Republic of Indonesia, Order of Ho Chi Minh, Order of the Victory of Socialism, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands", Order of Klement Gottwald, Hero of Labor, Dimitrov Prize medal, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic, Gold medal of Karl Marx, Jubilee Medal "30 years of the Victory in Khalkhin-Gol", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Army", Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution", Medal "For the strengthening of friendship in arms", Medal "For Bravery Before the Enemy", Medal of Victory and Freedom 1945, Order of Playa Girón, National Order of Merit Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania, United Nations Peace Medal, Commemorative medals of the Czechoslovak army abroad, Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, Gold Mercury International Award, Collar of the Order of the White Lion, Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, Order of the Yugoslavian Great Star, Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class, Grand Cross of the Order of Military Virtue, Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish People's Republic, Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland