Leonid Osipovich Utesov, also spelled Utyosov or Utiosov, born Lazar (Leyzer) Iosifovich Vaysbeyn or Weissbein, was a famous Soviet estrada singer, and comic actor, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.
Leonid Sergeyevich Vasilyev was a Soviet and Russian historian, social scientist, religious scholar, sociologist, orientalist (sinologist) and Doctor of Historical Sciences.
Leonid Vladimirsky was a Russian illustrator who worked on fairy tales, including books by Alexander Pushkin, Aleksey Tolstoy, and Alexander Volkov, as well as some folk tales.
Leonid Veniaminovitch Volodarskiy (Russian: Леони́д Вениами́нович Волода́рский is a Russian translator, writer, and weekly radio show author. He is mostly known in Russia as one of the home video voice-over translators of 1990s by a movies, such as The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator dilogy, Last Action Hero, A Nightmare on Elm Street and others. Volodarskiy was also the first translator of Stephen King books into Russian.
Leonid Vysheslavskyi was a Ukrainian poet, literary critic and translator. He wrote in the Russian and Ukrainian languages and published more than 60 books of poems, prose and translations. Vysheslavskyi's works were published in the Ukrainian, Polish, German, French and other languages. He had supporters and friends in many countries.
Leonid Arkadyevich Yakubovich PAR is a Russian actor and television host, best known for hosting the game show Pole Chudes. Yakubovich is one of the best-known television and internet personalities in Russia. In January 2023, Ukraine imposed economic sanctions on Leonid Yakubovich for his support of 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Leonid Yudasin is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player and trainer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Yudasin was part of the USSR team that won the gold medal in the 1990 Chess Olympiad. He competed in the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship twice, in 1991 and 1994.
Leonid Abramovich Yuzefovich is a Russian writer known for the series of crime fiction stories taking place in pre-Revolution Russian Empire. He also writes non-fiction books about history, and currently adapts his stories for TV serials.
