What is "brezhnev"

Brezhnev (masculine) or Brezhneva (feminine) is a Russian and Ukrainian surname.

Those bearing it include:

• Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), a General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Viktoria Brezhneva (1908–1995), wife of Leonid Brezhnev
• Vladimir Brezhnev (1935–1996), Russian ice hockey player
• Galina Brezhneva (1929–1998), daughter of Leonid Brezhnev
• Yuri Brezhnev (1933–2013), son of Leonid Brezhnev
• Lyubov Brezhneva, niece of Leonid Brezhnev
• Vera Brezhneva (b. 1982), Ukrainian pop-singer

The name was applied from 1982 to 1988, in honor of Leonid Brezhnev, to the city of Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan.

Category:Ukrainian-language surnames

Brezhnev (1906–1982) was the Russian politician Leonid Brezhnev.

Brezhnev also may refer to:

• Brezhnev (film), a 2005 biographical film about Leonid Brezhnev
• Brezhnev (surname)
• Brezhnev, former name of Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia

Brezhnev (Russian: ) is a 2005 biographical TV movie about Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. It originally aired in four parts on Russia's Channel One.

The movie was an expensive period piece partly filmed in the Kremlin. While nostalgic, the film does not attempt to rehabilitate Brezhnev.