Leonid Brezhnev grave (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow / Krasnaya ploshchad
 grave, bust (sculpture)
The body ot the General Secretary of the CPSU, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, who died on November 10, 1982, was buried on November,15 in 12.45 a.m. after the solemn ceremony, which reproduces in general the funeral rituals of Lenin and Stalin. The only difference being that the funeral of Leonid Brezhnev was attended by over 40 leaders of the socialist and the leading capitalist countries - a record number of the summit-level participants in the history of the funeral.
The bust by sculptor I. Rukavishnikov was installed on the grave of Leonid Ilych Brezhnev in 1983.


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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev
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Coordinates:   55°45'12"N   37°37'11"E
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