The Andropov Phenomenon. 30 years from the life of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee

The phenomenon of Andropova. 30 years old from the life of the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the CPSSO of the Personality of Andropova is written and will still be written. Of interest is the creative heritage of Andropov, and not everything is still investigated and published. Andropov phenomenon is composed of both the real facts of his biography surrounding his myths and estimates submitted in public opinion about him. According to the study conducted by the Sociological Center of Yuri Levada at the end of April 2006, it was found that the greatest sympathies of our fellow citizens - in the amount of positive answers, from the heads of the state of our previous century, V.I. Lenin and Yu.V. Indropov (by 47% of responses), L.I.Bezhnev and Nicholas II (39% of responses), I.V.Stalin (36%), N.S. Khrushchev (28%), M.S. Gorbachev (20%), B.N. Heltsin (12%) ... But Andropov also received the minimum number of negative estimates of interviewed persons - 7%