September 27 (Saigon), November 12, 1982, Andropov was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. November 12, 2011

1982, (1 $ dj��.c��m) CPSU Central Committee was held in Moscow extraordinary plenary session unanimously elected Yuri - Vladimirovich - Andropov to the CPSU Central Committee General Secretary.
Andropov presided over the plenary session. Meeting to mourn the CPSU Central Committee general secretary, the chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev. Members of the Politburo, Central Committee Chernenko in Plenary Session on behalf of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the proposed election Andropov as general secretary.
Andropov said in a speech after being elected, he will try to domestic and foreign policies pursued by the Brezhnev alive to maintain inheritance. June 15, 1914
Andropov was born in Stavropol Krai family of a railway employee, highly educated, and in 1939 to join the party. From 1936 onwards, he began to do the Work of the Communist Youth League, and has served as the leadership of the Communist Youth League in some factories, state and union republics. After the start of the Great Patriotic War, he was in Karelia to participate in the anti-fascist guerrilla war, in 1944, he was appointed the second secretary of the Petrozavodsk City Party Committee, the CPC Central Committee since 1949 Karelia second secretary. In In
1951, Yuri Andropov, was transferred to the central authority, engaged in diplomatic work in 1953, served as ambassador to Hungary, in 1957, he was appointed Liaison Department of the CPSU Central Committee.
starting from the 22nd Congress in 1961, he has been a member of the Central Committee, was elected to the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1962, was appointed as the Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers of National Security Committee in May 1967, the same year 6 he was elected as alternate member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, `971 April become a Politburo member, was elected the Central Committee in May 1982. He is the representative of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.