Shelepin

[ shuh-lep-in; Russian shi-lye-pyin ]

noun

1. A·le·xan·dr Ni·ko·la·ye·vich [al-ig-, zan, -der nik-, uh, -, lahy, -, uh, -vich, uh-lyi-, ksahndr, nyi-kuh-, lah, -yi-vyich], 1918–1994, Soviet government official.

Example Sentences

As state television stokes confrontation, the talk show warriors are getting “angrier and more aggressive,” said Ilya Shelepin, who broadcasts a Russian press review on YouTube for the opposition organization founded by the imprisoned Kremlin critic Aleksei A. Navalny.

From New York Times

Brezhnev, Podgorny, Shelepin -- they're completely different people.

From Time Magazine Archive

The key figures who ousted my father were not Shelepin and Ignatov but Brezhnev with Podgorny, who had more than once in conversations with other members of the Presidium touched on the subject of relations with Khrushchev.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's an active participant in the plot, along with Shelepin, Podgorny and others.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Shelepin said that you got your doctor-of-science degree without defending it."

From Time Magazine Archive