L. I. Brezhnev: nationality, short biography

In recent years, an increasing number of people are beginning to warmly recall the Brezhnev era of stagnation. The presence of stability and social lifts in consciousness begins to outweigh the absence of dozens of varieties of sausage and the queue for shortages. Many note the practical absence of tension in relations between peoples. Therefore, in those days, no one was interested in Brezhnev's nationality.

Origin

Leonid Ilyich was born on January 1, 1907, although December 19, 1906 was considered his official birthday in the Soviet Union. Perhaps the adoption of the date of birth according to the old style was explained by the fact that they wanted to separate the celebration of the New Year and the anniversaries of the first leader. He was born in the village of Kamenskoye (in Soviet times, the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk). In 2016, the city where Brezhnev was born was given back its historical name.

Father Ilya Yakovlevich (1874-1930) and mother Natalya Denisovna Mazalova (1886-1975) lived in the village of Brezhnevo (now the Kursk region) before coming to Kamenskoye. Leonid Ilyich had a younger brother, Yakov Ilyich (1912–1993) and a sister, Vera Ilyinichna (1910–1997).

Nationality Brezhnev

The metric and other official documents of the early period, which were kept in the regional archive of the city of Dnepropetrovsk, were confiscated. In one of the rare available documents, a questionnaire of 1935, filled out by him with his own hand, in the column "nationality" Brezhnev wrote - Ukrainian. In later documents, he indicated Russian nationality.

Many myths are still being generated around her, based on the fact that Leonid Ilyich occupied the highest party posts in Moldova and then in Kazakhstan. Corresponding roots are attributed to him, because the post of the first secretary of the party of the Soviet republic was usually held by a representative of the local nationality. Stalin considered Brezhnev a Moldavian.

As usual, Jewish roots were "found" in him, as well as Polish, Gypsy and Romanian. Leonid Ilyich's mother spoke Polish well, which she explained by her close proximity to the Poles. Most researchers are of the opinion that Brezhnev's nationality is Russian with Ukrainian roots.

early years

In their hometown, the Brezhnev family lived in an ordinary two-story house number 40 on Pelin Avenue, which had four apartments. Later, the inhabitants of the city began to call it "Lenin's house". As a child, he was very fond of playing with pigeons, for which a dovecote was built in the yard. The last time Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev visited his homeland was in 1979. He visited the house where he spent his childhood, and the residents got the opportunity to take pictures with their former neighbor.

The official biography says that he is from a working-class family, but, most likely, his father was a technical worker at a metallurgical plant, since Ilya Yakovlevich managed to send his eldest son to study at a classical gymnasium in 1915. Leonid Ilyich graduated from it in 1921, by which time the gymnasium had become a labor school.

Having received a secondary education, the young Brezhnev went to work at the Kursk oil mill, where in 1923 he joined the Komsomol. From 1923 to 1927, he studied at the land surveying and reclamation technical school, marrying Victoria Denisova in the year of graduation. Then Leonid Ilyich worked as a land surveyor in Belarus and other regions of the country. In 1931 he became a member of the Communist Party. In 1935 he graduated from the Dneprodzerzhinsk Metallurgical Institute.

War years

Leonid Ilyich began the war in October 1941 with the rank of brigade commissar on the Southern, then Caucasian fronts. In 1943, he became the head of the political department of the 18th Army, which was part of the First Ukrainian Front, where Khrushchev N.S. led political work. They already met in 1931, and Nikita Sergeyevich became the mentor of the young Brezhnev.

In 1943, he participated in the battles for Novorossiysk, where about 40 times, at the risk of his life, he sailed with an amphibious assault to the Malaya Zemlya bridgehead. Once, by a blast wave, he was thrown into the sea from a seiner, from where Leonid Ilyich was pulled out by sailors. The obsessive propaganda in Soviet times of L. I. Brezhnev's book "Small Land" made many skeptical about this period of life. But, according to military sources, he really fought bravely. At the Victory Parade, he walked along with the commander A. I. Eremenko at the head of the column of the Fourth Ukrainian Front.

In the first year after the war, he served in the Carpathian military district, where he participated in the fight against Ukrainian nationalists. According to one version, it was at this time that Brezhnev began to write nationality as Russian.

Good and bad

In 1964, after the dismissal of Khrushchev N.S. as a result of a conspiracy in the top leadership of the country, L.I. Brezhnev became the first person in the state. In the first decades, there was a qualitative improvement in the life of the population, the majority of the population gained access to the main benefits of that time. Further, the implementation of the space program, the program of oil and gas production in Siberia, was successfully launched.

However, in the last decades of Brezhnev's rule, due to inefficient economic policy, the cult of personality, and the conservation of the development of social and spiritual life, an era of stagnation began.