Editing Konstantin Chernenko (section)

===Origins===
Chernenko was born to a poor family in the [[Siberian]] village of [[Bolshaya Tes]] (now in [[Novosyolovsky District]], [[Krasnoyarsk Krai]]) on 24 September 1911.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jessup|first=John E.|title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945–1996|year=1998|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CT|page=121|url=https://www.questia.com/read/106899354/an-encyclopedic-dictionary-of-conflict-and-conflict|isbn=|access-date=2 September 2017|archive-date=10 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010024655/https://www.questia.com/read/106899354/an-encyclopedic-dictionary-of-conflict-and-conflict|url-status=dead}}{{ISBN?}}</ref>

Chernenko joined the [[Komsomol]] (Communist Youth League) in 1929. By 1931 he became a full member of the ruling Communist Party. From 1930 to 1933, he served in the [[Soviet Border Troops|Soviet frontier guards]] on the Soviet–Chinese border. After completing his military service, he returned to [[Krasnoyarsk]] as a [[propaganda in the Soviet Union|propagandist]]. In 1933 he worked in the Propaganda Department of the Novosyolovsky District Party Committee. A few years later he was promoted to head of the same department in Uyarsk Raykom.

Chernenko steadily rose through the Party ranks, becoming the Director of the Krasnoyarsk House of Party Enlightenment before being named Deputy Head of the [[Agitprop]] Department of Krasnoyarsk's Territorial Committee in 1939. In the early 1940s, he began a close relationship with [[Fyodor Kulakov]] and was named Secretary of the Territorial Party Committee for Propaganda.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Hough, Jerry F.|author-link=Jerry F. Hough|title=Democratization and revolution in the USSR, 1985–1991|publisher=[[Brookings Institution Press]]|year=1997|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BzaaFXMpvMkC|isbn=0-8157-3748-3|page=67|access-date=15 October 2016|archive-date=2 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240602225110/https://books.google.com/books?id=BzaaFXMpvMkC|url-status=live}}</ref> By 1945 he acquired a diploma from a party training school in Moscow then later finished a [[distance education|correspondence course]] for schoolteachers in 1953.