Leonid Maksimovič LEONOV Writer; (b. Moscow, 19 May 1899 – d. Moscow, 8 August 1994)

Writer, journalist (associate of Pravda, Izvestije)

Membership of SASA: Department of Language and Literature; foreign member from 16 December 1971

Awards and recognitions: Lenin Prize; state award of USSR; Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour; Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree

Obituary: God. / SANU 101 (1995) 659–661 (M.Babović)

Photograph: SANU F-598/1