General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Union (1984-1985). Born on September 24, 1911, to a peasant family in Krasnoyarsk, he was of Russian nationality. He joined the Communist Party in 1931.
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