Brezhnev (surname)

Brezhnev (masculine) (Брежнев, Брежнєв) or Brezhneva (feminine) is a Russian and Ukrainian surname.

Those bearing it include:


 * Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), a General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
 * Viktoria Brezhneva (1908–1995), wife of Leonid Brezhnev
 * Vladimir Brezhnev (1935–1996), Russian ice hockey player
 * Galina Brezhneva (1929–1998), daughter of Leonid Brezhnev
 * Yuri Brezhnev (1933–2013), son of Leonid Brezhnev
 * Lyubov Brezhneva, niece of Leonid Brezhnev
 * Vera Brezhneva (b. 1982), Ukrainian-Russian pop-singer

The name was applied from 1982 to 1988, in honor of Leonid Brezhnev, to the city of Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan.