Crossword clues for leonid
leonid
- Soviet leader Brezhnev
- Russian writer Andreyev famous for his horrific tales
- Author Andreyev, called "The Edgar Allan Poe of Russian Literature"
- Meteor in a meteor shower
- Russian playwright Andreyev
- ___ meteor shower
- U.S.S.R.'s Brezhnev
- Brezhnev
- Nikita's successor
- Coward uplifted by 1 down's shooting star
- Sign racket backfiring for Brezhnev, say?
- Shooting star, such as Brezhnev
- Ex-Soviet leader Brezhnev
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leonid \Le"o*nid\ (l[=e]"[-o]*n[i^]d), n. [From Leo: cf. F. l['e]onides, pl.] (Astron.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.
Wikipedia
Leonid is a Russian and Ukrainian version of the given name Leonidas. The French version is Léonide.
People with the name include:
- Leonid Andreyev (or Andrejew) (1871–1919), a Russian playwright and short-story writer who led the Expressionist movement in the national literature
- Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982), political leader of the USSR from 1964 to 1982
- Leonid Buryak (b. 1953), USSR/Ukraine-born Olympic-medal-winning soccer player
- Leonid Bykov (1928-1979), a Soviet-Ukrainian actor, film director, and script writer.
- Leonid Desyatnikov (b. 1955), a Russian opera and film composer
- Leonid Gaidai, (1923–1993) a popular Soviet comedy film director and People's Artist of the USSR in 1991
- Leonid Geishtor (b. 1936), USSR (Belarus)-born Olympic champion Canadian pairs 1,000-meter sprint canoer
- Leonid Gobyato (1875–1915), a Russian lieutenant-general and designer of the modern, man-portable mortar
- Leonid Feodorov (1879–1935), a bishop and Exarch for the Russian Catholic Church, and survivor of the GULAG
- Leonid Filatov (1946–2003), a Russian actor, director, poet, and pamphleteer, and People's Artist of Russia in 1996
- Leonid Hurwicz (1917–2008), Russian-born American economist and mathematician who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics
- Leonid Kadeniuk (b. 1951), the first astronaut of independent Ukraine who flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997
- Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) a Soviet/Russian mathematician, economist, and only winner from the USSR of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1975)
- Leonid Kolumbet (b. 1937), Soviet-Ukrainian Olympic cyclist medalist
- Leonid Krasin (1870–1926), Soviet/Russian engineer and politician
- Leonid Kravchuk (b. 1934) a Ukrainian politician who was elected the first President of Ukraine in 1991
- Leonid Kuchma (b. 1938), the second President of Ukraine (1994–2005)
- Leonid Kuravlyov (b. 1936) a Russian actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1976
- Leonid Levin (b. 1948), a Soviet-American computer scientist
- Leonid the Magnificent, (Leonid Filatov, b. 1973) a Russian performance artist who became known nationwide after his appearances on America's Got Talent
- Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin/ Léonide Massine (1896–1979), Russian choreographer and ballet dancer
- Leonid Mezheritski (1930–2007), USSR and Israeli still-life, portrait and landscape painter
- Leonid Moseyev (b. 1952), Soviet-Russian long-distance runner
- Leonid Pasternak (1862–1945), a Russian Impressionist painter
- Leonid Reiman (or Reyman) (b. 1957), a Russian businessman and government official, currently Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of the Russian Federation
- Leonid Rozhetskin, (b. 1966) an international financier and lawyer credited with bringing significant financial and legal advances to modern Russia
- Leonid Sagayduk (1929–1998), a Soviet swimmer
- Leonid Sobinov (1872–1934), a Russian opera singer and the People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1923
- Leonid Stadnyk (b. 1971), a Ukrainian man named "world's tallest living man" by '' Guinness World Records 2008
- Leonid Stein (b. 1934) Soviet Grandmaster chess player from Ukraine who was among the world's top ten players in the 1960s
- Leonid Taranenko (b. 1956) 1980 gold medallist in weightlifting for the Soviet Union
- Leonid Utyosov (Leyzer (Lazar) Vaysbeyn, or Weissbein) (1895–1982) a Russian jazz singer and comic actor, and People's Artist of the USSR in 1965
- Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938–2016), Soviet weightlifter and Olympic gold medalist
Fictional characters include:
- Leonid, the protagonist in Alexander Bogdanov’s 1908 Russian science fiction novel Red Star
- Leonid, the protagonist in the Labyrinth trilogy of cyberpunk novels written in the late 1990s by Russian science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko ( Labyrinth of Reflections, False Mirrors, and Transparent Stained-Glass Windows).
- Leonid Gorbovsky, a character in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe written from the 1960s through the 1980s.
- Leonid Kovar, a Russian superhero also known as Red Star
- Leonid Pavel, a Russian nuclear scientist in The Dark Knight Rises
Usage examples of "leonid".
She had four little bombs, Leonid had cannons that could tear a hole in anything that got in his way.
In her U-2, Katya flew Leonid to a cavalry company resting in the rear.
She handed the tray back to Leonid, who took it with the comic attitude of a servant.
Katya sat in the jouncing cockpit, smiling down at Leonid, who stood hands on hips, a handsome, admiring young man.
Katya and Vera were the ringleaders, Leonid chuckled at the influence they had in their squadron.
After an hour of leisure, Leonid left them, then Vera went to write a letter.
Katya stood beside her biplane, watching Leonid walk to his Yak-9 in his flight suit, watched him take off to fly his shift of patrol duty over the aerodrome.
She wished Leonid were here in his Yak-9, blasting back at the Messerschmidt.
Katya was moved by the disparity of things she and Leonid pulled from the trunks: stuffed animals and extra signal flares, dried flowers and flight logs.
She wanted to point back into the tent, to the sobbing girls, and tell Leonid it has started.
Was Leonid being condescending, the way he looked over her intrepid little plane?
Then she asked herself the question before Leonid could: What if there is another night fighter waiting for us tonight?
Gazing into the immense blue sky, where God lived and she herself galloped, Katya wondered, Was it harm Leonid and I averted just now, or was it something else, something secret revealing itself on this mournful day?
Katya looked out through the flipping propeller, the whoosh of wind mounted, and she thought, Leonid, I must leave you for a few moments, please hang on.
She hoped to fly close enough to Leonid in the dark for him to recognize the popping Russian engine.