Brezhnev (surname)
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-Russian pop-singer The name was applied from 1982 to 1988, in honor of Leonid Brezhnev, to the city of Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan. Ukrainian-language surnames Russian-language surnames