Biography of Yuri Brezhnev


Nowadays, the personal life of public people is all in sight and hearing, but in the last century it was tightly wrapped in a veil of secrets. This was especially true for the party elite, carefully hiding the fate of his closest relatives. However, Brezhnev was constantly talked about the children, especially since they themselves gave reasons for discussion. This was especially true for the daughter of the Secretary General - Galina Brezhneva, legends went about her, so she loved to shock the audience with her antics.

Unlike her, the son of Leonid Ilyich - Yuri, was modest and quiet, many did not even know about his existence.

Biography of Yuri Brezhnev

But Yuri still belonged to those about whom they were born “with a gold spoon in the mouth”, and this was enough for his person to be treated with increased attention. Childhood of the predecessor of Leonid Ilyich - Nikita Khrushchev was the father of five children, and Brezhnev had only two heirs - a daughter and a son. They became a headache of a high -ranking father, who had to solve many problems delivered by their favorite children.

This is especially true for Galina, who was called by the eyes of the Kremlin Princess. She possessed an extravagant character, loved young guys, other people's jewelry, and constantly shown the environment. Father had to keep the situation under control, otherwise unnecessary rumors could have leaked into the press, which harmed his reputations. Unlike a sister, Yuri had a calm and quiet character.

He did not participate in scandals, did not become famous for numerous love adventures, and with a drunken vote. However, he did not become what his father wanted to see, but the reason for everything is a soft, limp character, devoid of all kinds of ambitions. Yuri Brezhnev in childhood with sister Galina Yuri Brezhnev was born in the Ukrainian city of Kamenskoye on March 31 of the year.

Subsequently, this city was called Dneprodzerzhinsk, and in the year it was again renamed, the former was returned to Kamenskoye. At a time when his father was engaged in a political career, raising children lay on her mother’s shoulders - Victoria Brezhneva Denisova. She had a diploma of a medical college, but she preferred her career a house and a family. During the war years, Brezhnev was evacuated to Alma-Ata.

After returning home, Yuri graduated from school, and became a student at the Dneprodzerzhinsky Institute of Metallurgy. The father insisted on this, as the country needed qualified specialists. In those years, Leonid Ilyich worked as the first secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk regional party committee. Yuri received a diplomal engineer diploma, but he did not work by profession for a day.

Career every year Yuri became more and more like his father, but purely outwardly. The character did not come out. Brezhnev himself understood that his son was increasingly inherited by his brother's character traits - Yakov Brezhnev, the same quiet and calm, devoid of all kinds of ambitions. Yakov did not refuse anyone, he simply did not learn to tell the man “no”. He fully enjoyed the high position of his brother, and helped everyone who asked for patronage.

Yuri completely had no political ambitions, and his father perfectly understood that he could not make his career himself. He insisted on his son's move to the capital. That is why in the year he quit from the Dnipropetrovsk plant named after Liebknecht, where he worked as a manager, and moved to Moscow. The changes in his biography began a year later, Yuri joined the ranks of the CPSU, and unexpectedly addicted to alcohol.

Yuri Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich by that time was already tired of fighting his daughter's drunkenness, so he decided to prevent his son finally falls depending on the “green snake” and took decisive measures. Brezhnev did not find another exit, as leaving the offspring abroad. In those years, only a diplomatic department and foreign trade were sent to work abroad.

Yuri received a diploma of a prestigious university in the year, and he was hired by a senior engineer in the All -Union Association of Technopromiport. After a short cooperation with this organization, Yuri Brezhnev is in a leadership position - he is appointed head of the department of the USSR trade representative office in Sweden. A little more time passed, and he occupied the chair of the trade representative of the Soviet Union in the same Sweden.

Yuri's career developed rapidly, thanks to the loud name. In the years, while his father held a high post, Yuri Brezhnev managed to work in senior positions. Although some considered him a synecure, a man who was simply listed, and someone else worked instead. They may be familiar.