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Leonid Ilyich
[ley-uh-nid il-yich;; Russian lyi-uh-nyeet ee-lyeech] /ˈleɪ ə nɪd ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian lyɪ ʌˈnyit iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), 1906–82, Russian political leader: first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1964–66; general secretary 1966–82; president of the Soviet Union 1960–64, 1977–82.
Contemporary Examples

Teddy’s Idealism Adam Clymer August 25, 2009
The Mystery of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Bernard-Henri Lévy January 1, 2014
The Case for Bombing Iran Shows Hawks Wrong All Over Again Michael Tomasky February 7, 2012
Putin’s Sochi and Hitler’s Berlin: The Love Affair Between Dictators and the Olympic Games. Garry Kasparov February 6, 2014
Inside ‘Leviathan’: Russian Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Award-Winning Anti-Putin Cannes Film Richard Porton May 26, 2014
Will Arming Syrian Rebels Lead to Disaster? Bruce Riedel June 14, 2013

Historical Examples

Area Handbook for Bulgaria Eugene K. Keefe, Violeta D. Baluyut, William Giloane, Anne K. Long, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole

noun
Leonid Ilyich (lɪaˈnit ˈilitʃ). 1906–82, Soviet statesman; president of the Soviet Union (1977–82); general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1964–82)