Vladimir Sobachenkov (Russian: Владимир Собаченков) is a retired Soviet KGB officer who served as a bodyguard of Leonid Brezhnev.
On 23 March 1982, a platform with people collapsed above Brezhnev and his entourage at a factory near Tashkent.
Brezhnev suffered a concussion and a broken clavicle, whereas part of the skin was removed from Sobachenkov's head.
[1] It was Sobachenkov and Vladimir Medvedev who found Brezhnev dead in his bed in the morning of 10 November 1982.
Sobachenkov was offered a low-profile position, but refused and retired from the KGB.