Draft:List of international trips made by Leonid Brezhnev

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This is a list of international trips made by Leonid Brezhnev as the fifth leader of the Soviet Union. In this role he was General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1964 until 1982 as well as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989.

Summary of visits[edit]

1965[edit]

Deng Xiaoping (left) and Brezhnev (right) with Nicolae Ceaușescu in Bucharest, 1965.

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1965:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Poland Warsaw 5 April State visit.[1][2] Visited with Premier Alexei Kosygin.
Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest July State visit.[3]

1966[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1966:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Mongolian People's Republic Ulaanbaatar 13-15 January 1966 State visit.[4][5]

1967[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1967:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 East Germany East Berlin April 18 7th Party Conference of the East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany was held in East-Berlin
 Hungarian People's Republic Budapest September 10 State visit.[6] Visited with Premier Alexei Kosygin.[7][8]

1968[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1968:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Czechoslovakia Čierna nad Tisou 29 July-1 August Met with Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubček. The meeting was followed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on 20 August 1968.[9][10]
 Poland Warsaw November 10-13 Attended the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party on 13 November 1968, where he reaffirmed the Brezhnev Doctrine.[11][12]

1971[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1971:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Bulgaria Sofia April 20 10th Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party.[13]
 Czechoslovakia Prague May 27 State visit. Attended the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.[14]
 France Paris

Marseille

October 28 State visit.[15][16]
 Poland Warsaw December 7 Attended the Sixth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party.[17][18]

1972[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1972:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 West Germany Bonn State visit. It was the first visit by a Soviet leader since the end of the World War. Met with West German leader Helmut Schmidt.[19]
 Hungarian People's Republic Budapest November 27-29 State visit.[20][21]

1973[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1973:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Czechoslovakia Prague February 22 State visit.[22] Attended the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état.
 Poland Warsaw May 12 State visit.[23]
 East Germany East Berlin May 13-14 State visit. Presented Erich Honecker with the Order of Lenin.[24]
 West Germany Bonn May 22 State visit.[25]
 United States Washington, D.C. June 18–25 Washington Summit[26][27]
 France Paris June 26 Working visit. Met with Georges Pompidou.[28][29][30]
 Bulgaria Sofia September 20-21 State visit.[31][32]
 Yugoslavia Belgrade September 21 State visit.[33]
 India New Delhi November 27-December 1 State visit.[34][35]

1974[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1974:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Cuba Havana 28 January-3 February State visit. Foreign Affairs Minister Andrey Gromyko, Leningrad First Secretary Grigory Romanov, Ukrainian First Secretary Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers on Foreign Relations Committee Ivan Arkhipov.were part of the Soviet delegation. On 29 January, the Soviet delegation visited Plaza de la Revolución and attended a Cuban-Soviet friendship rally, where he and Prime Minister Fidel Castro spoke.[36][37][38] At the end of the visit, he was awarded the Order of José Martí.

[39]

 Poland Warsaw July 20-22 State visit. Attended the National Day of the Rebirth of Poland celebrations.[40][41]
 East Germany East Berlin October 5-7 State visit. Attended the Republic Day celebrations.[42][43]
 Mongolian People's Republic Ulaanbaatar November 26 State visit.[44][45][46][47][48]
 France Paris December State visit.[49]

1975[edit]

Bilateral meeting between President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in Helsnki.

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1975:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Finland Bucharest July 31-August 1 Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe[50][51]

1976[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1976:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest November 28 State visit.[3][52]
 Yugoslavia Belgrade November 15-18 State visit.[53]

1977[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1977:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 France Paris June 20–23 State visit. First visit since becoming head of state.[49]

1978[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1978:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 West Germany Bonn May 7 State visit.[54]
 Czechoslovakia Prague May 30 State visit.[55][56][57]

1979[edit]

Leonid Brezhnev with Erich Honecker on the 30th anniversary of the founding of the GDR (1979).

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1979:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Hungarian People's Republic Budapest May 31-June 2 State visit.[58][59][60]
 Austria Vienna June 16-18 Met with President Rudolf Kirchschläger and Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Met with Jimmy Carter for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.[61][62][63][64]
 East Germany East Berlin October 7 State visit. Attended the Republic Day celebrations.[65][66]

1980[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1980:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 Yugoslavia Belgrade May 4 Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito
 India New Delhi December 9-13 State visit.[67][68]

1981[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1981:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 West Germany Bonn November 23-27 State visit.[69]

1982[edit]

The following are the international trips made by Brezhnev in 1982:

Country Cities visited Date(s) Details
 West Germany Bonn January 20-23 State visit.[70]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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