Biography of the Secretary General

Brezhnev received education at the classical gymnasium, in the city after graduating from the Dneprodzerzhinsky Metallurgical Institute he worked as an engineer at the Dneprodzerzhinsky Metallurgical Plant. In the city of Leonid Ilyich, he was transferred to party work and, by the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, became the secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Party, working under the direct leadership of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine N.

with the outbreak of war in June Brezhnev organized the mobilization of the population in the Red Army, and also led the evacuation of the regional industry for the regional industry Ural. After the occupation of the Dnipropetrovsk region, he was sent to the front as deputy head of the political department of the Southern Front. In February, Brezhnev, as part of the landing, landed in the area of ​​Novorossiysk and held a strategically important bridgehead, which later received the name "Small Earth".

Leonid Ilyich participated in the defense of the Caucasus, the liberation of Ukraine, an attack on the territory of Germany, ended the war in Prague with the rank of Major General as the head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front. As a commissar of the consolidated regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front, he took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow on June 24, Brezhnev was demobilized and returned to party work to manage the regional party committees in Ukraine.

Having shown good results in the restoration of the national economy from post -war devastation, he received an increase in the city at the 19th Party Congress in the city, however, after the death of the leader in March, Brezhnev reported the party’s congress about the work performed and was transferred to work in Moscow. In this post, he oversaw the defense industry, paid special attention to nuclear, rocket and space forces.

The October Plenum of G. G. The main goal of the new leader of the country considered the preservation of stability in society. A number of reforms were launched, focused on reducing the number of directive planned indicators, the provision of greater independence to enterprises. The production of electricity increased, the development of oil and gas fields of Siberia, the creation of a system of export oil and gas pipelines began.

The growth rate of housing construction, the development of the social sphere increased. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR was adopted that despite the fact that many of its provisions were not fully implemented, this document brought closer the law to the legal practice of his era and went down in history as the “Constitution of developed socialism”. The main objectives of foreign policy were the preservation of the existing order in Eastern Europe and a decrease in tension in relations with Western countries.

Brezhnev and US President R. Nixon signed agreements on limiting the missile defense systems and limiting strategic offensive weapons.

The symbol of the “discharge” era was the docking on July 11. In addition, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of thought, conscience, religion and beliefs, became the reason for the activation of the dissident movement in the USSR. In December, more than 60 countries refused to take part in the Olympic Games, held in Moscow in the city on the night of November 10, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev died.

He was buried on Red Square in Moscow near the Kremlin wall. Selected works: 3 tons of Brezhnev: Materials for the biography. Personality and era. Political portrait of L.