The Dnipropetrovsk Mafia, also known as the Dnipropetrovsk clan or simply Dnipropetrovtsi, is a group of Ukrainian oligarchs, politicians, and organised crime figures, and formerly Soviet politicians. While two separate groups, both iterations of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia have been linked by their powerful influence on Ukraine and base in the southern Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk) in 2015
Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1982)
Leonid Kuchma, originally leader of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia, later President of Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko (pictured here in 2010), a close follower of Lazarenko, became one of the leaders of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia after the latter's flight from Ukraine
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. To this day, the value of Brezhnev's tenure as General Secretary remains debated by historians.
Official portrait, 1972
Brezhnev's Residence house that he lived in from 1929 to 1936
Brezhnev (right) in the rank of commissar giving a Communist Party membership-card to a soldier (1942)
Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Brezhnev's main patron.
