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

Another disappointment for Spassky came at the qualifier for the next Interzonal, the Soviet final, played in Moscow 1961, where he again lost a crucial last-round game, this to Leonid Stein, who thus qualified, as Spassky finished equal fifth with 11 / 19, while Petrosian won.

He placed joint fifth, with Leonid Stein at the 30th Soviet championship held in Yerevan 1962, with 11½ / 19.

Two of Black's responses to the Petrosian variation were developed by grandmasters Paul Keres and Leonid Stein.

In the USSR Championship at Tallinn 1965 ( URS-ch33 ), he scored 11 / 19 for 6th place, as Leonid Stein won.

Leonid Zakharovich Stein (; November 12, 1934 – July 4, 1973 ) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster from Ukraine.

Leonid Stein was born in Kamenets-Podolsky.

In the USSR vs Rest of the World match at Belgrade 1970, he played first board for the World side, ahead of Fischer, and scored 2½ / 4 against Spassky and Leonid Stein.

The defence was later adopted by a number of prominent players, including Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Korchnoi, Leonid Stein, and Bobby Fischer.

Later, Bent Larsen, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Lev Polugaevsky, Leonid Stein, Mark Taimanov, and Mikhail Tal all made extensive contributions to the theory and practice of the defence.

Players such as Vasily Smyslov, David Bronstein, Isaac Boleslavsky, Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov, Tigran Petrosian, Efim Geller, Mark Taimanov, Yuri Averbakh, Boris Spassky, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, and Leonid Stein dominated the landscape with their sharper styles and innovative openings.

* Robert Byrne vs Leonid Stein, Sarajevo 1967, Sicilian Defense, Accelerated Dragon Variation ( B35 ), 1 – 0 Byrne defeats the Soviet champion Stein in one of his favourite variations.

* Leonid Stein was born here.

Perhaps his best tournament result was the Alekhine Memorial 1967 in Moscow, where he finished on 10 / 17, a point behind the winner Leonid Stein.

At Moscow 1967, which had 12 of the world's top 33 players, he shared sixth / eighth places with 9. 5 / 17, and defeated World Champion Petrosian ; the tournament winner was Leonid Stein.

* Lajos Portisch vs Leonid Stein, Amsterdam Interzonal 1964, Benoni Defence ( A56 ), 1-0 In what would turn out to be a vital game for eventual qualification, Portisch takes out the Soviet champion.

Savon, though then only an International Master, finished well ahead of former world champions Mikhail Tal and Vasily Smyslov ( both scoring 13. 5 ), future world champion Anatoly Karpov ( 13 ), and a host of other strong grandmasters, including Leonid Stein ( 12 ); David Bronstein and Lev Polugaevsky ( both 11. 5 ); Mark Taimanov ( 11 ); and Efim Geller ( 9. 5 ).

Hort went on to finish the Interzonal in a tie for sixth with Samuel Reshevsky and Leonid Stein, but did not advance to the Candidates matches, Reshevsky becoming the successful Candidate following a three-way tie-breaking match.

* Leonid Stein ( b. 1934 ) Soviet Grandmaster chess player from Ukraine who was among the world's top ten players in the 1960s

* 1938 – Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician

* 1934 – Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician

* November 28 – Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz touches off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.

Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma publicly blamed the military for the disaster and dismissed the head of the air force, Volodymyr Strelnykov.

Former Ukrainian presidential bodyguard Nikolai Melnichenko bugged the following conversation between Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and his security chief Leonid Derkach about SPAG:

In September 2005, soon after the Ukrainian government led by prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was dismissed by president Viktor Yushchenko, a former president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk accused Berezovsky of financing Yushchenko's presidential election campaign, and provided copies of documents showing money transfers from companies he claimed were controlled by Berezovsky to companies controlled by Yuschenko's official backers.

On 4 June 1953, Oleksii Kyrychenko succeeded Leonid Melnikov as First Secretary of the CPU ; this was significant since Kyrychenko was the first ethnic Ukrainian to lead the CPU since the 1920s.

The 1991 Ukrainian presidential election, 1991 | presidential election ; former dissident Vyacheslav Chornovil gained 23. 3 percent of the vote compared to 61. 6 percent for then Acting President Leonid Kravchuk.

In the 1991 Ukrainian presidential election 62 percent of Ukrainians voted for Leonid Kravchuk.

Scholars have defined several " Clans " in Ukrainian politics grouped around businessman and politicians from particular Ukrainian mayor cities ; the " Donetsk-clan " ( Rinat Akhmetov, Viktor Yanukovich and Mykola Azarov ), the " Dnipropetrovsk-clan " ( Yulia Tymoshenko, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Pinchuk, Sergey Tigipko and Pavlo Lazarenko ), the " Kiev-clan " ( Viktor Medvedchuk and the brothers Surkis ; this clan has also been linked to Zakarpattia ) and the smaller " Kharkiv-clan ".

Orchestral banduras were first developed by Leonid Haydamaka in Kharkiv 1928 in order to extend the range of the bandura section in his orchestra of Ukrainian folk instruments.

In Ukraine, the concert Cimbalom was first formally used in the Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments organized and directed by Leonid Haydamaka from 1922 by Oleksandr Nezovybatko.

* Recording, Trio for Violin, Contrabass & Piano, by Leonid Hrabovsky, on 20th Century Ukrainian Violin Music 1987 cassette recording CYFP 2032 by Yevshan Corporation, Canada, Library of Congress Card no.

78-7509959 ( first recorded in 1964, 1975 on ORION-ORS 79331 ), First western recording of music by Ukrainian composer Leonid Hrabovsky, recorded September 1978, released June 1979.

Leonid Stepanovich Stadnyk (), ( born 1971 in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR ) is a Ukrainian man renowned for his stature.

* Guinness official record of Leonid Stadnyk's height, based on a measurement by the Ukrainian Book of Records.

Among the members of the Action Group were individuals who subsequently fell victim to psychiatric abuse themselves: the poetess Natalya Gorbanevskaya who in 1968 demonstrated on Red Square against bringing Soviet tanks into Czechoslovakia ; Vladimir Borisov who later was one of the founders of the independent labor movement in the Soviet Union ; Vladimir Maltsev, a translator ; and Leonid Plyushch, a Ukrainian cyberneticist who was committed to the Special Psychiatric Hospital of Dnepropetrovsk and was awfully tortured with neuroleptics.

In 2005, the most powerful representative of the " Dnipropetrovsk Faction " in Ukrainian politics was Leonid Kuchma, the former President of Ukraine and former senior manager of Yuzhmash.

Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (; born January 10, 1934 ) is a Ukrainian politician, the first President of Ukraine serving from December 5, 1991 until his resignation on July 19, 1994, a former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and People's Deputy of Ukraine serving in the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine ( united ) faction.

At first he wrote leaflets for an underground printing press in Kiev, but soon moved to the capital, Saint Petersburg, where he worked with both Bolsheviks, such as Central Committee member Leonid Krasin, and the local Menshevik committee, which he pushed in a more radical direction.

: The Armenian Radio answers: " In principle yes, but it was not in Moscow, rather in Kiev, and it was not his car, but his bike and it was not comrade cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, but comrade highschool teacher Gagarin and his first name was not Yuri, but Leonid ..."

Soon after his defeat in 1994, Leonid Kravchuk joined the powerful business and political group known as Kiev Holding or the Dynamo Group.

Leonid Mykhaylovych Chernovetskyi (; born November 25, 1951 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR ) is the incumbent Mayor of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.

While he was running for a third term as Mayor of Kiev in what was expected to be an easy victory in the March 2006 election, he was badly defeated and came third behind Leonid Chernovetsky ( mayor-elect ) and Vitali Klitschko.

His father, Leonid Kibalchich, a former infantry trooper from Kiev, was distantly related to Nikolai Kibalchich of the People's Will, who was executed as a result of the assassination of Alexander II in 1881.

Heorhiy Kirpa () ( July 20, 1946 in Klubivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast – December 27, 2004 in Bortnychi, near Kiev ) was a Ukrainian railway manager, statesman and politician, best known as the head of the Ukrzaliznytsia national railway company and Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications under President Leonid Kuchma.

In January 2009 the Mayor of Kiev Leonid Chernovetskyi bought Arsenal Kyiv for 1 hryvnia from Rabynovich ; Chernovetskiy ’ s 30-year-old son Stepan became the club ’ s president.

The party is led by the Mayor of Kiev, Leonid Chernovetskyi.

At the Kiev City Council election, 2008 the party was part of the Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc alliance ; it will compete in the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2012 also as a member of the Leonid Chernovetskyi Bloc.

It was joined by a number of others, among them ( the future Mayor of Kiev ) Leonid Chernovetsky and Mykola Azarov, a long-standing ally of then President Leonid Kuchma, who was elected leader of the party in March 2001 but resigned in December ( 2001 )., his successor was Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr Semynozhenko.

When, on 29 August 1991, Transnistria's independence leader Igor Smirnov and three other deputies arrived in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, to meet the Ukrainian leader Leonid Kravchuk.

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.