About Leonid Kirensky
Lived 1909 – 1969 (aged 60). Leonid Kirensky was a Russian physicist and politician.
Leonid Vasilyevich Kirensky (; April 7, 1909 in Amga, Russian Empire – November 3, 1969 in Moscow, Soviet Union), whose name was also written as Leonid Vasil'evich Kirenskii, was a Soviet physicist and university professor. In the same year he conducted the first international symposium on the physics of magnetic thin films in Irkutsk. In October 1969 he attended the Congress of the International Astronautical Federation in Argentina. On the return journey he died in Moscow of a heart attack.
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1961)
Hero of Socialist Labour (1969)
Order of Lenin (1969)
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Who was Leonid Kirensky?
Soviet physicist (1909-1969)
When was Leonid Kirensky born?
Leonid Kirensky was born on 25 March 1909 in Amga.
When did Leonid Kirensky die?
Leonid Kirensky died on 3 November 1969 in Moscow.
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Leonid Kirensky was a physicist and politician.
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Leonid Kirensky was Russian.
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