The23rd Congress of theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) took place inMoscow,RSFSR between 29 March and 8 April 1966. It was the first Congress duringLeonid Brezhnev's leadership of the Party and state. The position of First Secretary (held by Brezhnev) was renamed back toGeneral Secretary, which had been its name from 1922 to 1952. The congress elected the23rd Central Committee.
Leonid Brezhnev,Gennady Voronov,Andrei Kirilenko,Alexei Kosygin,Kirill Mazurov,Arvid Pelshe,Nikolai Podgorny,Dmitry Polyansky,Mikhail Suslov,Alexander Shelepin andPetro Shelest were elected full members of the23rd Politburo, whileViktor Grishin,Pyotr Demichev,Dinmukhamed Konayev,Pyotr Masherov,Vasil Mzhavanadze,Sharof Rashidov,Dmitriy Ustinov andVolodymyr Shcherbytsky were elected candidate members.
On 4 April, the Soviet probeLuna 10, the first spacecraft to orbit theMoon, broadcast the notes ofThe Internationale to the Congress.
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