Ten random things: July 18

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:

1. Nikolai Podgorny (December 9, 1965 – June 16, 1977)
2. Konstantin Chernenko (April 11, 1984 – March 10, 1985)
3. Mikhail Gorbachev (October 1, 1988 – May 25, 1989)
4. Kliment Voroshilov (March 15, 1953 – May 7, 1960)
5. Nikolay Shvernik (March 19, 1946 – March 6, 1953)
6. Leonid Brezhnev (May 7, 1960– July 15, 1964; June 16, 1977 – November 10, 1982)
7. Yuri Andropov (June 16 1983 – February 9, 1984)
8. Mikhail Kalinin (January 17, 1938 – March 19, 1946)
9. Andrei Gromyko (July 27, 1985 – October 1, 1988)
10. Anastas Mikoyan (July 15, 1964 – December 9, 1965)