Brezhnev (surname)
Appearance
Brezhnev (masculine) (Russian: Брежнев, Ukrainian: Брежнєв) 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.