(Some of Nikolay Leonov's works are published in this book...)
Some of Nikolay Leonov's works are published in this book of B. S. Kusin.
1993
Nikolay Dmitrievich Leonov was born October 7, 1897 in Lebedyan City, Tambovskaya oblast, Russian Federation. He came from a family of a local doctor. He was a brother of Dmitry Dmitrievich Leonov. He had a sister, Vera Dmitrievna Leonova. He was a nephew of K.N. Igumnov.
In 1915 he graduated from the Real School of I. P. Miroshnikov in Voronezh. In early 1920s he graduated from Moscow University, the Natural Sciences Department, the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. He specialized with the Professor Krasheninnikov.
Since the early 1920s Nikolay Leonov lived in Tashkent, where he participated in the organization of the Faculty of Biology of the Central Asian University. In 1920-1930s he headed the Department of Plant Physiology. Since 1948 he worked in the Botanical garden of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR.
Nikolay Dmitrievich was friends with the exiled Tashkent orientalist and linguist Ed Polivanov. In 1936 he met with Akhmatova in Voronezh, in 1941-1944 he communicated with her in Tashkent. Since the late 1920s, he maintained friendly relations with O.E. and N.Y. Mandelstam, met with them in Moscow and Voronezh.
