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Within the family she was called "Galya". The same year she was born, Galina's father joined the Communist Party.

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At the time he was working as a land manager for the Party and Galina was a year old, the family moved in with Galina's paternal grandparents on the ulitsa Pelina in Kamenskoye. Her father, being a student, was then granted student housing where, in , Galina's younger brother, Yuri, was born. To support the family her father worked several day jobs, including as stoker and steam engine lubricator and fitter, and by night he studied to become a metallurgist.

Her mother, who had been a midwife before marriage, tended to the children and the home. During this period the USSR endured devastating and widespread famine , but by virtue of her father's being a Party functionary, even if only a low-ranking one, the Brezhnev family had sufficient access to food and avoided starvation.

Between supporting his family and his obligations to the Party, Galina's father was often away from home and rarely saw his family. In July Russia was invaded by the Germans and the Brezhnev's hometown was shelled by German artillery.

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They remained, nonetheless, until being forced to evacuate in August to Almaty in Kazakstan. Galina's father subsequently left she, Yuri, and their mother to go and join the war effort. After the liberation of Dnepropetrovsk in November the family was able to return to their home, but Galina would not see her father again until In June her father was promoted to chief of the political administration of the Fourth Ukrainian Front.

Benefits granted in connection with the Moscow Victory Day Parade held to celebrate the end of WWII included his being allowed to send for his family and spend a week with them. Later the same year Brezhnev was tasked by Stalin to implement the sovietization of Ruthenia and Bucovina. He flew to Dnepropetrovsk to fetch his family and they settled in Chernovtsy before moving to Zaporizhzhia , where Galina would attend school and graduate in