* 1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter ( d. 1995 )

He won the 1971 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow ( equal with Leonid Stein ), ahead of a star-studded field, for his first significant adult victory.

* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer ( d. 1919 )

The treaty was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev ; and ratified by the US Senate on August 3, 1972.

Once, when his younger son Leonid fell seriously ill, Zinaida extracted a promise from her husband, as they stood by the boy's sickbed, that he would end his affair with Olga Ivinskaya.

Accounts of the Ethiopian artillery deployed at Adwa differ ; Russian advisor Leonid Artamonov wrote that it comprised 42 Russian mountain guns supported by a team of fifteen advisers, but British historians suggest that the Ethiopian guns were Hotchiss and Maxim pieces captured from the Egyptians or purchased from French and other European suppliers.

* Leonid P. Lebedev and Michael J.

The technology of CDMA was used in 1957, when the young military radio engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich in Moscow, made an experimental model of a wearable automatic mobile phone, called LK-1 by him, with a base station.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the CPC experienced a significant ideological breakdown with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev, and later, Leonid Brezhnev.

In 1964, the Central Committee ousted Khrushchev from power, and elected Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary.

On 14 October 1964 the Central Committee, alongside the Presidium, made it clear that Khrushchev himself did not fit the model of a " Leninist leader ", and he was forced to resign from all his post, and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

The nomenklatura system came under attack ; several delegates asked why the leading party members had rights to a better life, at least materially, and why the leadership was more-or-less untouchable, as they had been under Leonid Brezhnev, even if their incompetence was clear to everyone.

Its first chairman was Nikita Khrushchev, and he was succeeded in 1964 by Leonid Brezhnev.

In 1952 the title of General Secretary became First Secretary and the Politburo became the Presidium before reverting to their former names under Leonid Brezhnev in 1966.

The history of the Soviet Union from 1982 through 1991, spans the period from Leonid Brezhnev's death and funeral until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

But Andropov's ability to reshape the top leadership was constrained by his poor health and the influence of his rival ( and longtime ally of Leonid Brezhnev ) Konstantin Chernenko, who had previously supervised personnel matters in the Central Committee.

A 1987 conference convened by Soviet economist and Gorbachev adviser Leonid Abalkin, concluded: " Deep transformations in the management of the economy cannot be realised without corresponding changes in the political system.

* 1885 – Leonid Pitamic, Slovenian philosopher ( d. 1971 )

* 2004 – Leonid Telyatnikov, Kazakhstani fire chief at Chernobyl ( b. 1951 )

* 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.

by Leonid Grinin, Victor C. de Munck, and Andrey Korotayev.

* Leonid L. Rubchinsky et al.

* TCM Remembers 1998: composer John Addison, Gene Autry, Binnie Barnes, Lloyd Bridges, Dane Clark, art director George Davis, John Derek, special effects visual Linwood G. Dunn, Alice Faye, Norman Fell, editor Gene Fowler, Jr., Douglas Fowley, Patricia Hayes, Valerie Hobson, Josephine Hutchinson, director Alan J. Pakula, Leonid Kinskey, director Akira Kurosawa, cinematographer Charles Lang, Phil Leeds, Jean Marais, E. G. Marshall, Roddy McDowall, Jeanette Nolan, Lucille Norman, Maidie Norman, Dick O ' Neill, Maureen O ' Sullivan, composer Gene Page, choreographer Jerome Robbins, Gene Raymond, Roy Rogers, Esther Rolle, Frank Sinatra, J. T. Walsh, Vincent Winter, O.

* Grenkevich, Leonid D., The Soviet partisan movement, 1941-1944: a critical historiographical analysis, Frank Cass Publishers, 1999 ( hardcover ISBN 0-7146-4874-4, paperback ISBN 0-7146-4428-5 ).

Presidents have invited other world leaders to travel with them on Air Force One at times, including Nixon inviting Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to travel with him to California from Washington, D. C. in June 1973, and George W. Bush traveled with Mexican President Vicente Fox to Toledo, Ohio on 6 September 2001 In March 2012, President Obama took the British Prime Minister David Cameron to a basketball game in Ohio aboard Air Force One.

The current focus of New Directions is threefold: discovering and acquiring many new contemporary international writers and introducing them to the US ( among these are: W. G. Sebald, Roberto Bolaño, Javier Marías, César Aira, Inger Christensen, László Krasznahorkai, and Yoko Tawada ); maintaining a tradition of publishing new and experimental American poetry and prose ( recent poets include the National Book Award-winner for poetry Nathaniel Mackey, Forrest Gander, Eliot Weinberger, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Thalia Field, Peter Cole, and Will Alexander ); and reissuing New Directions ' classic titles in new editions with introductions by highly praised writers and artists, including: Jonathan Lethem ( Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust ), William Gibson ( Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths ), Susan Sontag ( Leonid Tsypkin's Summer in Baden-Baden ), Edwidge Danticat ( René Philoctète's Massacre River ), Sue Monk Kidd ( Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contemplation ), John Ashbery ( Alvin Levin's Love is Like Park Avenue ), Devendra Banhart ( Kenneth Patchen's We Meet ), Will Self ( Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi ), and Jeanette Winterson ( Djuna Barnes's Nightwood ).

* Stupidest Man of the Year: U. S. Senator John Kerry, Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Columnist Ann Coulter, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Players Association Director Bob Goodenow ( Shared ), U. S. President George W. Bush

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director Harold Brown and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev both described the neutron bomb as a " capitalist bomb ", because it was designed to destroy people while preserving property.

Historically, the first term for optimization was " linear programming ", which was due to George B. Dantzig, although much of the theory had been introduced by Leonid Kantorovich in 1939.

The theme of revolutionary history was developed in films like " The Youth of Maxim ", by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, " Shchors " by Dovzhenko, and " We are from Kronstadt " by E. Dzigan.

Chief engineer Leonid Kartsev created " Object 172 ", the initial design, but the prototype, marked " Object 172M ", was refined and finished by Valeri Venediktov.

* Kantorovich, Leonid, " Mathematics in Economics: Achievements, Difficulties, Perspectives ", Nobel Prize lecture, December 11, 1975

* " Autobiography: Leonid Kantorovich ", Nobel Prize website

" I probably was one of the last people who saw the Amber Room ", said Leonid Arinshtein, a literature expert with the nongovernmental Russian Culture Foundation, who was a Red Army lieutenant in charge of a rifle platoon in Königsberg in 1945.

Parts of the biographical section of Zosima's life are based on " The Life of the Elder Leonid ", a text he found at Optina and copied " almost word for word ".

A collective project of five authors wrote the work: Leonid Desyatnikov and Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky from St. Petersburg, Iraida Yusupova and Vladimir Nikolayev from Moscow, and the creative collective " Kompozitor ", which is a pseudonym for the well-known music critic Pyotr Pospelov.

On 2 July 2004 Our Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc established the Force of the people, a coalition which aimed to stop " the destructive process that has, as a result of the incumbent authorities, become a characteristic for Ukraine ", at the time President Leonid Kuchma and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych were the incumbent authorities in Ukraine.

* Lozny, Ludomir ( 2004 ), " The Transition to Statehood in Central Europe ", in Grinin, Leonid E, et al.

In the summer of 1999, the party entered the electoral bloc " Our choice-Leonid Kuchma ", who endorsed incumbent President Leonid Kuchma in the presidential election of 1999.

In 2137, Leonid Gorbovsky briefly participated in the discussion of the " Stepchildren Case ", but has shown little interest in it.

He graduated with excellence from Department of Astrophysics of Moscow State University in 1983 where he studied general relativity under Leonid Grishchuk presently Distinguished Research Professor of physics in Cardiff University, Wales.

* On April 30, 1961, Dr. Leonid Rogozov removed his own infected appendix at the Soviet Novolazarevskaja Research Station in Antarctica, as he was the only physician on staff.

Leonid Ksanfomaliti of the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences ( a contributor to the Venera mission ), in a yet to be published article in the journal Solar System Research, suggests signs of life in the Venera images.

His first project in Israel was the creation of The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and Eastern European Jewry located at Jerusalem's Hebrew University ; similar centers also exist in Moscow, Vilnius and Kiev.