Leonid Lazarevich was born on 01 (02). 12.1907 in the city of Nikolaev, district Golaya Pristan’ in a simple family. His father was a craftsman and his mother was a housewife. The family was large, Leonid was 11 children (the youngest). Leonid Lazarevich worked at the plant as a mechanic, before being drafted into the army. He got to serve in the Navy, in the Baltic. He served as a turbine driver on a warship in Kronstadt. After completing his military service, Leonid went to work on about. Sakhalin and worked there on the construction of the Okha - Komsomolsk-on-Amur oil pipeline in an engineering position, for which he was awarded the badge of the People's Commissar of the Fuel Industry "Excellence in Socialist Competition". Upon completion of construction, he was sent to the ministry to receive a referral to a new job. So he ended up in the Primorsky Territory and worked as a deputy manager of the Artemugol trust of the Primorskugol Combine system. At the beginning of the war, he had a reservation from mobilization into the active army and continued to work in the trust until early 1942. He went to the front as a volunteer. Leonid Lazarevich fought on the 1st Belorussian Front with the rank of junior lieutenant commander of the SU-76 1888 self-propelled artillery regiment of the 17th Guards Tank Oryol Red Banner Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Don Red Banner Order of Suvorov Corps. Participated in his unit in the Kalinkovichi-Mozyr operation in the Nizhnie Kozlovichi-Turovichi sector. For these battles, Junior Lieutenant Haykis Leonid Lazarevich was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Quote from the award list: “Entering the battle as the commander of the gun, comrade. Haykis from 01/11/1944 to 01/14/1944, in cooperation with the 17th tank brigade in the Nizhnie Kozlovichi sector, Turovichi showed courage and courage. Comrade Haykis was the first to break into enemy defenses in his self-propelled gun, and when the battery commander was killed in battle, Haykis immediately assumed command of the battery. His battery destroyed three dugouts with soldiers, two light machine guns, destroyed a self-propelled gun and up to 50 soldiers and officers. For skillful leadership in battle, for decisiveness, courage and courage, he is presented with a government award - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. The commander of the 17th Guards Tank Oryol Red Banner Brigade issued a resolution: “I am awarding a government award - the Order of the Red Star.” 15, in the fact that her husband, the commander of the SU-76 battery of the 1888 self-propelled artillery Valkavsky regiment, Junior Lieutenant Haykis Leonid Lazarevich, in the battles for the socialist Motherland, faithful to the military oath, showing heroism and courage, died on February 08, 1944. Buried with surrender military honors of the BSSR, Parich region, forest to the south of 1 km, Terebulin. "