Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (15 June [O.S. 2 June] 1914 – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician who was the sixth leader of the Soviet Union and the...
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the Russian Navy. She was initially named Yuri Andropov (‹See Tfd›Russian: Юрий Андропов) after Yuri Andropov, the former General Secretary of the Communist...
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1917–1991) was a Soviet woman who was the second wife of Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov. Lebedeva was born in 1917. She graduated from a pedagogical school...
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Politburo in 1978. Following the death of Brezhnev and his successor Yuri Andropov, Chernenko was elected General Secretary in February 1984 and made Chairman...
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in an individual tomb on Red Square at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's eventual successor as general secretary, was chairman of...
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died on 10 November 1982 and was succeeded as general secretary by Yuri Andropov. Upon coming to power in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev denounced Brezhnev's...
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appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply with an invitation to visit the Soviet...
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Academy of Foreign Intelligence (redirect from Andropov Institute)
Intelligence (alternatively known as the SVR Academy, previously known as the Yuri Andropov Red Banner Institute and the Red Banner Institute) is one of the primary...
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by Yuri Andropov. Andropov was the head of the USSR for a short time – on February 9, 1984, he died at the age of 69. Kuznetsov succeeded Andropov in...
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Soviet Union as a system—not just the Kremlin, not just Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, not just the KGB, but as a system—was geared to expect an attack and...
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