On November 12, 1982, Andropoff was elected Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union. On November 12, 1982, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union held a very plenary session in Moscow, unanimously elected Yuri-Vladimirovich-Andropoff to represent the Central Committee of the Soviet Union and proposed that Andropoff be elected Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union. Andropoff presided over the plenary session to commemorate the year in which the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, the Supreme Soviet Presidium of the Soviet Union, was elected Secretary-General of the Soviet Union, and on November 12, 1982, the Central Political Bureau of the Soviet Union, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union and the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, and on June 15, 1982, and