| Native Name: | Леонид Николаевич Лазарев |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Birth Date: | 14 July 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Russian SFSR |
| Death Place: | Russia |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Occupation: | Photographer |
Leonid Nikolaevich Lazarev (Russian: Леонид Николаевич Лазарев; 14 July 1937 – 4 May 2021) was a Russian photographer and photojournalist. Lazarev died on 4 May 2021 in Russia, at the age of 83.[1]
1957 – Won the second prize in the Moscow Festival of Youth and Students photo contest.
1957–1960 – Took part in a series of photo exhibitions called "Our Youth."
1958–1963 – Worked as a photojournalist in a "Soviet Woman" magazine.
1960 – Prize-winner of a "Soviet Woman" magazine.
1961 – Prize-winner of an all-USSR photo exhibition.
1961 – Prize-winner of an all-USSR photo exhibition for the 2nd time.
1964 – Worked as a photojournalist in a "Krugozor" magazine.
1972 – Graduated from the Journalistic Mastery Institute.
1974 – Prize-winner of an international contest by the "New Time" magazine.
1977 – Graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, cameraman faculty.
1985 – Prize-winner of an all-USSR "40 years of Great Victory" photo exhibition.
1999 – Awarded with a Kodak-Master title.
2008 – Personal photo exhibition in a "Photo Soyuz" gallery.
2010 – Personal photo exhibition in Orens Anz art gallery in New York, USA.
2010 – Sold works to Tretyakov Gallery.
2011 – A photo exhibition of Leonid Lazarev was held in the U.S. Congress. The opening was attended by Dan Russell, Deputy assistant Secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia; Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on international Affairs; and Natalia Kolodzei, curator of the exhibition and Director of the Kolodzie Art Foundation.
2013 – Russian Museum exhibited Lazarev's photographs from 05.09.2013, No. 2459/2.
2013 – Opening of "Penza Arts International-2013" in The Penza Savitsky Art Gallery. Author's project "Generation."
2014 – Exhibition in the style of "Visionism" at the international exhibition "Penza Art International" in The Penza Savitsky Art Gallery.
2014 – The University of Arizona in the United States art gallery presented 18 photographs by L. Lazarev.
2015 – The Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Brazil) presented 19 photographs by L. Lazarev. 2016 – State Central Cinema Museum (Moscow) was replenished with 5 photographs by L. Lazarev, from 12.03.2015, No. 199.
2016, 21 March – The opening of a personal exhibition of L.N. Lazarev at Columbia University in the United States.
2016 – The Museum of Moscow received 47 photographs by L. N. Lazarev from 18.11.2016 No. 90.
2016 – Lazarev created a bronze sculpture called "Photographer." The sculpture was acquired by The State Historical and Memorial Museum-Reserve "Homeland of VI Lenin." Act PP-30/16.