Konstantin Chernenko

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Konstantin Chernenko was a Soviet politician who briefly led the USSR as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1984 until his death in 1985, during the final years of the Cold War.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet politician
human
awardReceived Hero of Socialist Labour
Order of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
burialPlace Kremlin Wall Necropolis
causeOfDeath emphysema
heart failure
child Vladimir Chernenko
conflict Russian Civil War
countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1911-09-24
dateOfDeath 1985-03-10
employer Communist Party of the Soviet Union
ethnicGroup Russians
familyName Konstantin Chernenko self-linksurface differs
surface form: Chernenko
fullName Konstantin Chernenko self-linksurface differs
surface form: Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko
givenName Konstantin
headOfGovernment Nikolai Tikhonov
languageSpoken Russian
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
militaryBranch Red Army
movement Brezhnev era political establishment
nativeName Konstantin Chernenko self-linksurface differs
surface form: Константи́н Усти́нович Черне́нко
notableWork continuation of late Brezhnev-era policies
numberOfChildren 3
officeEndTime 1985-03-10
officeStartTime 1984-02-13
1984-04-11
partOf Soviet leadership during the Cold War
placeOfBirth Bolshaya Tes, Yeniseysk Governorate, Russian Empire
Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
placeOfDeath Moscow
surface form: Moscow, Soviet Union
politicalIdeology Marxism–Leninism
positionHeld Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
General Secretary of the Communist Party
surface form: Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
precededBy Yuri Andropov
religion atheism
residence Moscow
surface form: Moscow, Soviet Union
sexOrGender male
spouse Anna Dmitrievna Lyubimova
succeededBy Mikhail Gorbachev
workLocation Moscow

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Konstantin Chernenko familyName Konstantin Chernenko self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Chernenko
Konstantin Chernenko fullName Konstantin Chernenko self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko
Communist Party of the Soviet Union keyFigure Konstantin Chernenko
Konstantin Chernenko nativeName Konstantin Chernenko self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Константи́н Усти́нович Черне́нко
Kremlin Wall Necropolis notableBurial Konstantin Chernenko
Soviet–Afghan War notableCommander Konstantin Chernenko
subject surface form: General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Tikhonov servedUnder Konstantin Chernenko