But Andropov's ability to reshape the top leadership was constrained by his poor health and the influence of his rival ( and longtime ally of Leonid Brezhnev ) Konstantin Chernenko, who had previously supervised personnel matters in the Central Committee.

At 71, Konstantin Chernenko was in poor health, suffering from emphysema, and unable to play an active role in policy making when he was chosen, after lengthy discussion, to succeed Andropov.

Following the death of terminally ill Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in March 1985, marking the rise of a new generation of leadership.

* 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

The Godley & Creme-directed video depicted a wrestling match between then-President Ronald Reagan and then-Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko for the benefit of group members and an eagerly belligerent assembly of representatives from the world's nations, the event ultimately degenerating into complete global destruction.

Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko.

Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko ( 24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985 ) was a Soviet politician and the fifth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

* Pribytkov, Victor, " Soviet-U. S. Relations: The Selected Writings and Speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko ", The American Political Science Review, Vol.

Within three years of the deaths of Soviet Leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985.

Upon Andropov's death in 1984, the aged Konstantin Chernenko took power ; after his death the following year, it became clear to the party hierarchy that younger leadership was needed.

* 1911 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician ( d. 1985 )

* February 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

** Konstantin Chernenko, President of the Soviet Union ( d. 1985 )

On February 9, 1984 Andropov died and was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko who in turn died on March 10, 1985.

But at the meeting neither Konstantin Chernenko, Viktor Grishin, Nikolai Tikhonov, Dmitriy Ustinov nor any of the other politburo members made mention of Andropov's stated wishes.

The only ones who saw him on a regular basis were Politburo members Dmitriy Ustinov, Andrei Gromyko, Konstantin Chernenko and Viktor Chebrikov.

He was succeeded in office by Konstantin Chernenko, who was destined to serve even less time in office ( 13 months ) than Andropov did before his death in office.

Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko further rehabiliated Molotov ; in 1984 Molotov was even allowed to seek a membership in the Communist Party.

* Konstantin Chernenko ( 1911 – 1985 ), Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU

* Albert Chernenko ( 1935 – 2009 ), Russian philosopher and son of Konstantin Chernenko

Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko were obliged by protocol to rule the country in the same way as Brezhnev had.

Andropov was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, who ruled for no more than 13 months.

Yuri Andropov, Brezhnev's 68-year-old successor, was seriously ill with kidney disease when he took over, and after his death fifteen months later, he was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, then 72, who lasted thirteen months before his death and replacement with Gorbachev.

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

Skopje was the capital of the estate of the Bulgarian feudal lord, later Emperor Konstantin Asen in the middle of 13th century.

Space stations were also later envisaged by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Oberth.

Slow development of this technology continued up to the later 19th century, when the writings of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first talked about liquid fuelled rocket engines.

Famous revolutionaries with Polish origins include Konstantin Rokossovsky, Julian Marchlewski, Karol Świerczewski and Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka secret police which would later turn into the NKVD.

The deposed presidents of Estonia ( Konstantin Päts ) and Latvia ( Kārlis Ulmanis ) were imprisoned and deported to the USSR and died later in Siberia and Central Asia.

His maternal great-grandfather, Mustafa Celaleddin Pasha, ( former Konstantin Polkozic-Borzecki 1826 – 1876 ) in Ottoman Empire, was of Polish origin and later converted to Islam, and authored " Les Turcs anciens et modernes ” in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul ), 1869 which is considered one of the first works of national Turkist political thoughts.

After the premiere, Shostakovich made some revisions to the score, and this final version was first played in Moscow later in 1927 under the baton of Konstantin Saradzhev.

However, these changes threatened Brezhnev, and Brezhnev would later order Konstantin Chernenko to take a look at the 1936 Soviet Constitution to find a way to weaken Podgorny's position.

Two years later Konstantin died, and Yuri was allowed to return to Vladimir.

* In 1939 a Soviet general ( later Field Marshal ) Konstantin Rokossovsky was tortured including suffering several mock executions ordered by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

He was accused of spreading pan-Slavic ideas and was imprisoned in Istanbul later to be joined by his supporting brother Konstantin.

Further influences on Serov were the old master paintings he viewed in the museums of Russia and Western Europe, friendships with Mikhail Vrubel and ( later ) Konstantin Korovin, and the creative atmosphere of the Abramtsevo Colony, to which he was closely connected.

* 1917: Konstantin Päts, the later conservative leader, founded the Radical Democratic Party ( Radikaal-Demokraatlik Erakond ).

The opera was given at the city's Bolshoi Theatre a month later, on 6 November, conducted by Vyacheslav Suk and with set designs by Konstantin Korovin.

* 1972: Die sadopoetischen Gesänge des Konstantin Amadeus Wecker ( later renamed as: Konstantin's Erste )

Roughly half a century later, in 1870, Alexander II of Russia had the palace reconstructed by the architect Konstantin Mayevsky, using old drawings and watercolours as guide.

Distinctly Modernist, and strongly influenced by Russian literature and by the ideas of Konstantin Stanislavski, their travels in Western Europe and later to Romania played a significant role in the dissemination of a disciplined approach to acting that continues to be influential down to the present day.

Roy Medvedev reports a rumor that Ordzhonikidze's files and papers were later confiscated by Lavrentiy Beria, and that Ordzhonikidze's bodyguards and personal secretary, along with his brothers Ivan and Konstantin, were also arrested.

A year later, Konstantin was appointed a member of the State Council.

Alexandra and Konstantin later acquired the palace of Oreanda, located in the Crimea, which had originally been built by Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and left to her second son for his retirement.

He served as an advisor to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, first in the Dienststelle Ribbentrop (" Ribbentrop Bureau "), and later in the Auswärtiges Amt (" Foreign Office ") as a diplomat when von Ribbentrop replaced Konstantin von Neurath.

For short period it was a Bulgarian city in the First Bulgarian Empire and the Second Bulgarian Empire, later it was part of the Serbian Empire in the early 14th century and the town governor was Jovan Oliver during the time of Emperor Dusan, it was part of Konstantin Dragas realm in 1355-1395.