Leonid Georgievsky

Leonid Georgievsky (formerly Elena Nikolayevna Georgievskaya, ; b. June 9, 1980 in Yaroslavl Oblast, USSR) is a Russian author and political activist. Georgievsky is a transgender person and uses "he/him" pronouns. He changed the gender marker on passport in 2023 .

He graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in 2006. He is a member of the Union of Russian Writers (since 2012).

He was longlisted for the Debut Prize (2006, 2013, 2015 ). He is a recipient of the 2010 Fellowship of the Ministry of Culture. He lives in Kaliningrad and Moscow. , served as one of the editors of the F-Pismo project , and co-edited — alongside Anna Golubkova and Yulia Podlubnova — «Сетка Цеткин» (Zetkin's Net), Russia’s first anthology of feminist criticism .

He is the author of books including «Вода и ветер» (Вагриус, 2009, ), «Хаим Мендл» (Franc-tireur USA, 2011), «Книга 0» (Franc-tireur USA, 2012), «Сталелитейные осы» (Вивернариум, 2017, , ) . Olga Slavnikova praised his early novel «Место для шага вперёд».