Leonid Solovyov was born on August 19, 1905 in Tripoli, Lebanon. He was a writer, known for
Adventures in Bokhara (1943),
Priklyucheniya Artyomki (1956) and
The Overcoat (1959). He was married to Elizabeth Belyaeva, Tamara Grizzly and Maria Kudymovskoy. He died on April 9, 1962 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].