| Leonid Volodarskiy | |
| Birth Date: | 20 May 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Known For: | Film translator radio show anchor writer |
Leonid Veniaminovitch Volodarskiy (Russian: Леони́д Вениами́нович Волода́рский; 20 May 1950 – 7 August 2023) was a Russian translator, writer, and weekly radio show anchor.[1] He is mostly known in Russia as one of the home video voice-over translators of 1980s and 1990s films such as The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator dilogy, Last Action Hero, A Nightmare on Elm Street and others. Volodarskiy was also the first translator of Stephen King books into Russian.
Volodarskiy died on 7 August 2023, at the age of 73 due to heart failure.[2]
Dmitry Puchkov, known in Russia as «Goblin», parodied Volodarskiy's voice in his humorous dub of named Star Wars: Storm in the Glass.