Demokrat Leonov

Demokrat Vladimirovich Leonov (; 1 April 1926 – 15 March 1969) was a Soviet Border Troops colonel and a Hero of the Soviet Union, who was killed in action during the 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict.

Biography Leonov was born on 1 April 1926 in Baku. His father served as a Border Guard.

After finishing 9th grade of school in 1943, Leonov began serving as a member of the Soviet Border Troops, when the Second World War was ongoing. He did not see any front line combat during the war. In 1947, he joined the Communist Party of Soviet Union and graduated from the Military Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1954. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the South Caucasus region, and four years later he became chief of staff of the border detachment at the Transcaucasian Military District.

Leonov was buried with military honors at a memorial in the city of Iman (currently known as Dalnerechensk), where frontier-guards who died during the Sino-Soviet border conflict on Damansky Island are buried.

Awards and honors Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR" Honorary State Security Officer

A street in Vladivostok is named after Leonov. A factory ship based at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was also named in honor of him. A secondary school in the city of Magadan bore the name of Leonov, and a memorial plaque in honor of him was installed at a secondary school in the city of Arkhangelsk.