Background
Finkelstein, Leonid Vladimirov was born on May 22, 1924 in Cherkassy, Ukraine. Son of Vladimir Yefimovich and Rebecca Markovna (Shwartsbraim) Finkelstein.
Finkelstein, Leonid Vladimirov was born on May 22, 1924 in Cherkassy, Ukraine. Son of Vladimir Yefimovich and Rebecca Markovna (Shwartsbraim) Finkelstein.
Diploma in engineering Moscow Automotive Engineering Institute, 1955.
1 son, Andrew; children by previous marriage– Anatoly, Dmitry. Corresponding, feature writer, department editor Znanie-Sila (Knowledge is Power) magazine, Moscow, 1958-1966. Freelance journalist, writer, London, 1966-1967.
Correspondent Radio Liberty, London, 1967-1977, chief editor, Munich, West Germany, 1977-1979.
Freelance writer, London, 1979-1980. Feature writer British Broadcasting Corporation, London, since 1980.
American Bar Association lecturer, United States. Author: The Ways to the Invisible Treasure, 1962.
To the Zero, 1963; The Touch of a Magician, 1965.
Forty Years to Pension Time, 1965. The Russians, 1968; The Russian Space Bluff, 1971. Founder member, vice president science journalism section Union Journalists Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1957-1966.
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association. Clubs: Royal Automobile, The Athenaeum.
Married Kira Szuchman, March 27, 1968. Children by previous marriage– Anatoly, Dmitry.