Rybinsk is the second-largest city of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Volga and Sheksna rivers, 267 kilometres (166 mi) north-north-east of Moscow. Population: 200,771 (2010 Russian census); 222,653 (2002 Census); 251,442 (1989 Soviet census).
Transfiguration Cathedral in Rybinsk
City center and cathedral in the 19th century
General view of Rybinsk in the 1820s
A 19th-century photo of a monastery near Rybinsk, now submerged under the waters of the Rybinsk Reservoir
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician who was the sixth leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, taking office in 1982 and serving until his death in 1984.
Andropov, Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev, 1967
Andropov in 1974 as KGB Chairman
General Wojciech Jaruzelski meeting Andropov during the 1982 crisis