Leonid Tur was born on April 11, 1905 in Tagancha, Kanev uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kaniv Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for
Vstrecha na Elbe (1949),
Bespokoynoe khozyaystvo (1946) and
Ispytanie vernosti (1954). He died on February 14, 1961 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].