 In 1982, she was rechristened "Leonid Brezhnev" in honour of Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982.In 1986 the name reverted to "Arktika", according to some accounts because the ship's crew disliked the new name and refused to respond to radio messages unless the ship was referred to as "Arktika".Within a week of the strike, the name was changed back.