List of international trips made by Leonid Brezhnev

This is a list of international visits made by Leonid Brezhnev during his tenure as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1964–1982) and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1977–1982).

Summary of visits 1960s Date Country City Details April 1965 Warsaw State visit. January 1966 Ulaanbaatar State visit. September 1966 Bucharest Met with General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu. April 1967 Karlovy Vary Attended the Conference of European Communist and Workers' Parties. June 1967 Cairo Met with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. December 6-8, 1967 Prague Working visit. Met with First Secretary Antonín Novotný. January 1968 Prague Visited during the early days of the Prague Spring.

1970s Date Country Locations visited Details November 1970 Budapest Attended the 10th Congress of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. September 1971 Belgrade Official visit. October 25-30, 1971 Paris Met with President Georges Pompidou. December 1971 Warsaw Attended the 6th Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party. May 18-22, 1973 Bonn State visit. Met with Chancellor Willy Brandt. June 16–25, 1973 Washington, D.C., Camp David, San Clemente State visit. September 1973 Sofia Official state visit to strengthen ties with Todor Zhivkov. November 26-30, 1973 New Delhi State visit. Met with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. January 28–February 3, 1974 Havana State visit where he met with President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado and Prime Minister Fidel Castro. July 1974 Warsaw Attended celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of Communist Poland. December 5-7, 1974 Paris Working visit. Met with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. December 1974 Ulaanbaatar State visit to mark the 50th anniversary of the republic. March 1975 Budapest Consultation with Warsaw Pact party leaders. July 30 – August 1, 1975 Helsinki Attended the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. Brezhnev signed the Helsinki Accords. December 1975 Warsaw Attended the 7th Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party. November 1976 Belgrade Visited President Josip Broz Tito. November 22-24, 1976 Bucharest Met with General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu. June 20-22, 1977 Paris State visit. May 4-7, 1978 Bonn Met with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. May–June 1978 Prague Official visit. General Secretary Gustáv Husák was decorated with the Order of the October Revolution at Prague Castle. January 1979 Sofia COMECON meeting. June 15–18, 1979 Vienna Attended the Vienna Summit alongside U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The two leaders signed the SALT II arms limitation treaty. October 5-8, 1979 East Berlin Visited for the 30th anniversary celebrations of the German Democratic Republic.

1980s Date Country Locations visited Details May 6-7, 1980 Belgrade Attended the state funeral of Josip Broz Tito. December 8-11, 1980 New Delhi State visit. April 5-10, 1981 Prague Attended the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. November 22-25, 1981 Bonn State visit.

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