<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Chernenko" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Konstantin Chernenko">Konstantin Chernenko</a> succeeds the late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Andropov" id="mwAQ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Yuri Andropov">Yuri Andropov</a> as general secretary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" id="mwAQ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party of the Soviet Union</a>.