Tell me when this page is updated Chernenko KONSTANTIN USTINOVICH CHERNENKO 1911 Sept. 24: Born in Bolshaya Tes, Novoselsky Raion, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia. Son of peasant. Worked as farm laborer for kulaks 1926: Joins Komsomol 1929: Heads Dept. of Propaganda and Agitation in Novoselsky Raion Komsomol 1930: Enlists in Frontier Guard, serving 3 years on Soviet-Chinese border 1931: Joins ...

Copyright 1998 ABC-CLIO, Inc. Kaleidoscope COUNTRY: Russia PERSON: Konstantin Chernenko HEADLINE: Biographies Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko briefly led the Soviet Union between 1984 and 1985. He represented a return to the hard-line policies of Leonid Brezhnev and the old guard before the changes brought on by Mikhail Gorbachev and the young technocrats. Chernenko was born on Sep 24, 1911 in ...