He succeeded Brezhnev in 1982
In 1954 he was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Hungary and held this 
position .... Two days after Leonid Brezhnev's death, on 12 November 1982, 
Andropov was ... Andropov was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, who was 
already... [DOC] [TLE] Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev - Wikipedia [PAR] On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the 
Communist ...