Background
Leonid Grigorievich Minov was born on April 23, 1898 in Daugavpils, Latvia.
Leonid Grigorievich Minov was born on April 23, 1898 in Daugavpils, Latvia.
Leonid Grigorievich was a participant of the 1st World War, the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War. In 1928, he studied parachutism in the United States, where one of the Soviet pilots made 3 experimental jumps. At the end of July 1930, at the gathering of the air forces of the Moscow Military District which were held near Voronezh, Leonid Grigorievich was in charge of demonstrative parachute jumps.
