Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Leonid Brezhnev across 3 places, from 1906 to 1969.
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 to 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Leonid Brezhnev was documented, and when
19 December 1906exact date
Kamianskeattested“Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on 19 December 1906 in Kamenskoye (now Kamianske, Ukraine) within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire to metalworker Ilya Yakovlevich Brezhnev (1874–1934) and his wife, Natalia Denisovna M…”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
19 December 1906exact date
Yekaterinoslav Governorateattested“Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on 19 December 1906 in Kamenskoye (now Kamianske, Ukraine) within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire to metalworker Ilya Yakovlevich Brezhnev (1874–1934) and his wife, Natalia Denisovna M…”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1930year
Moscowattested“Brezhnev reached the position of head of the land registry of Sverdlovsk in 1930, but relinquished it just half a year later to move to Moscow to enroll at the Institute of Agricultural Machinery.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1969year
Moscowattested“By 1969, relations with other communist countries had deteriorated to a level where Brezhnev was not even able to gather five of the fourteen ruling communist parties to attend an international conference in Moscow.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
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May 1938month
Dnepropetrovskmentioned“In May 1938, he obtained a position in Dnepropetrovsk and met Nikita Khrushchev, who had just taken control of the Ukrainian Communist Party.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1942year
Caucasusmentioned“When the Germans occupied Ukraine in 1942, Brezhnev was sent to the Caucasus as deputy head of political administration of the North Caucasus Front.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
May 1945month
Praguementioned“At the end of the war in Europe, Brezhnev was chief political commissar of the 4th Ukrainian Front, which entered Prague in May 1945, after the German surrender.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
November 1947month
Ukrainementioned“After working on reconstruction projects in Ukraine, he returned to Dnipropetrovsk in November 1947 as regional first party secretary.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
November 1947month
Dnipropetrovskmentioned“After working on reconstruction projects in Ukraine, he returned to Dnipropetrovsk in November 1947 as regional first party secretary.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1956year
Moscowmentioned“He was recalled to Moscow in 1956, before it became clear that the campaign would turn out to be disappointing.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1956year
Hungarymentioned“This became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine, although it was really a restatement of existing Soviet policy, as enacted by Khrushchev in Hungary in 1956.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
October 1964month
Pitsundamentioned“After returning from Scandinavia and Czechoslovakia in October 1964, Khrushchev, unaware of the plot, went on holiday to the Pitsunda resort on the Black Sea.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1965year
Soviet Unionmentioned“In early 1965, Shelepin began calling for the restoration of "obedience and order" within the Soviet Union as part of his own bid to seize power.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1968year
Sovietmentioned“Due largely to coinciding with the Prague Spring (whose sharp departure from the Soviet model led to its armed suppression in 1968), the reforms provoked a backlash among the party's old guard who proceeded to flock to Brezhnev and stren…”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1968year
Czechoslovakiamentioned“The first crisis for Brezhnev's regime came in 1968, with the attempt by the Communist leadership in Czechoslovakia, under Alexander Dubček, to liberalize the Communist system (Prague Spring).”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
13 November 1968exact date
Polish People's Republicmentioned“Brezhnev reiterated the doctrine in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party on 13 November 1968: Later in 1980, a political crisis emerged in Poland with the emergence of the Solidarity movement.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1969year
Beijingmentioned“The Sino–Soviet split had chagrined Premier Alexei Kosygin a great deal, and for a while he refused to accept its irrevocability; he briefly visited Beijing in 1969 in an effort to ease the tension between the USSR and China.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
1972year
Moscowmentioned“President Richard Nixon visited Moscow in 1972 to, among other things, negotiate on the Vietnam War, but nothing was agreed upon.”source: Wikipedia: Leonid Brezhnev
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