Leonid Brezhnev's year of death was 1982.
 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs sprint canoerLeonid Gobyato (18751915), Russian lieutenant-general and designer of the modern, man-portable mortarLeonid Hurwicz (19172008), Russian-born American economist and mathematician who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in EconomicsLeonid Ivanov (disambiguation), several peopleLeonid Kadeniuk (b
 1952), Soviet and Russian long-distance runnerLeonid Pasternak (18621945), Russian Impressionist painterLeonid Reiman (or Reyman) (b

