Candidate for Master of Sports of Ukraine in powerlifting. He also played volleyball and football.
A Candidate of Legal Sciences, lecturer at the Department of Justice at the Faculty of Law of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. Hence his call sign – “Academic.” Posthumously awarded the rank of Senior Lieutenant.
From March 2015 to February 1, 2017, he served in the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade, holding positions as an assistant grenade launcher, squad leader, and platoon commander. He completed a special course and earned the rank of lieutenant. After being demobilized in the fall of 2016, he signed a contract and continued defending his homeland on the front lines, serving as a company commander.
He was wounded twice, but after treatment, he returned to the front. Leonid was killed in combat on February 1, 2017, from multiple shrapnel wounds sustained during an artillery bombardment by Russian-terrorist groups at a company stronghold in the industrial zone of Avdiivka, Donetsk region.