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Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko , 1911-85, Soviet political leader. A protégé of Leonid Brezhnev , he rose through Communist party ranks in the 1950s, becoming a full member of the Central Committee (1971) and the Politburo (1978). When Yuri Andropov died (1984), he was elected... Read more
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov , 1914-84, Soviet Communist leader (1982-84). As ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, he played a major role in the suppression of the 1956 anti-Communist uprising there. In 1957 he was appointed head of liaison between the Communist party of the Soviet Union and its... Read more
Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov
Russian and Soviet leaders General Secretary of the Communist Party1 Equivalent of Prime Minister of the USSR2 Between 1917 and 1953, the Council of Ministers was replaced by the Council of People's Commissars1922–53 Joseph Stalin (b. Dzhugashvili)1953 Georgi Malenkov1953–64 Nikita ... Read more
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev , 1931-, Soviet political leader. Born in the agricultural region of Stavropol, Gorbachev studied law at Moscow State Univ., where in 1953 he married a philosophy student, Raisa Maksimovna Titorenko (1932?-99). Returning to Stavropol, he moved gradually upward in the... Read more
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov The Russian poet and novelist Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915-1979) is best known for his patriotic verse dealing with World War II and for his vivid prose descriptions of Soviet troops in action during the war. Konstantin Simonov was born on Nov. 28,... Read more
Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontiev Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontiev
LEONT'EV, KONSTANTIN NIKOLAEVICH(1831–1891) Konstantin Nikolaevich Leont'ev was a Russian writer, philosopher, critic, and publicist. Like almost all important nineteenth-century Russian authors, Leont'ev came from a family of landowners. He was trained in medicine at the University of... Read more
Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov
Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (1890-1974) was one of the Russian avant-garde's most prolific and internationally celebrated architects during the 1920s. By 1937 the individualism of his architecture no longer had a place in Stalin's U.S.S.R. Konstantin... Read more
Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov
AKSAKOV, KONSTANTIN SERGEYEVICH (1817–1860), Slavophile ideologue and journalist. Konstantin Aksakov was a member of one of the most famous literary families in nineteenth-century Russia. His father was the well-known theater critic and memoirist Sergei Aksakov; his brother, Ivan Aksakov,... Read more
Kyustendil Kyustendil
Kyustendil, Bulgaria Pautalia, Velbuzhd, Konstandili In 1018 its Roman name, from a Thracian word representing ‘source’ or ‘spring’, gave way to Velbuzhd after a local chief. After the Battle of Velbuzhd in 1330 when the Serbs defeated the Bulgarians and killed the tsar... Read more
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev
POBEDONOSTSEV, KONSTANTIN (1827–1907), conservative statesman, professor and chair of civil law at Moscow University (1860–1865), senator, chief procurator of the Holy Synod (1880 Read more

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