Birth Name: Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov
Date of Birth: June 15, 1914
Place of Birth: Stanitsa Nagutskaya, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Russia)
Date of Death: February 9, 1984
Place of Death: Moscow, Russian SFSR (present-day Russia)
Ethnicity: Russian
Yuri Andropov was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later. His father, Vladimir Konstantinovich Andropov, was of a Don Cossack family. His mother, Yevgenia Karlovna (Fleckenstein) Andropova, was adopted by a Moscow watchmaker, Karl Franzovich Fleckenstein, who was originally from Finland. He was married to Nina Ivanovna and Tatyana Filipovna Lebedeva.
Yuri’s paternal grandfather was Konstantin Andropov.