The Soviet party and state leader Leonid I. Brezhnev dies; he is succeeded as CPSU General Secretary by Yuri W. Andropov, the previous head of the KGB.
Funeral of Leonid I. Brezhnev in Moscow, 15 November 1982. (Photo: Bundesarchiv, Image 183-1982-1115-024, Photographer: Agentur TASS)
RIAS report from East Berlin on the death of Leonid I. Brezhnev, 11 November 1982 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Die Spätausgabe, Moderator/Reporter: Peter Kohagen, Eckhart Bethke)
20 November
1982
The inner-German transit motorway between Hamburg and Berlin is opened.
