Ko Chernenko, he kaihautū o te Communist Party's propaganda department i te Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. I reira, i tutaki ia ki a Leonid Brezhnev, te kaitiaki tuatahi o te Moldavian SSR mai i te 1950 ki te 1952 me te kaiarahi o muri o te Soviet Union. I whai a Chernenko i a Brezhnev i te 1956 ki te whakakii i tetahi pou whakatairanga rite i te CPSU Central Committee i Moscow. I te 1960, i muri i te whakaingoatanga o Brezhnev hei tiamana o te Presidium o te Soviet Supreme (te upoko o te kawanatanga o te Soviet Union), ka noho a Chernenko hei rangatira o tana tari.
Ko Leonid Brezhnev