Painter. Born in 1941 in the city of Satka in Chelyabinsk region. In 1961-1966 he studied at the Moscow correspondence University of culture. N. To. Krupskaya. From 1966 to 1971 he studied at the St. Petersburg state Academy of art and design. V. I. Mukhina. After graduation in 1971 are distributed in the city of Orsk to the position of chief artist of the city.
Since 1989 – member of Union of artists in painting.
Credo of the artist: always consult with the old masters and nature.
Party city (Orsk, Novotroitsk, Hot key), regional (Orenburg), regional (Chelyabinsk), regional (1974-2003. "Ural-4", Ufa; "Ural-5", Tyumen; "Ural-6", Sverdlovsk, Russia "Ural mountains-7", Kurgan; the "Ural-8", Ufa; "Ural-9", Sverdlovsk, 1972, Leningrad), USSR (1987, Moscow, Manezh; 1999, Moscow, Manege, "Russia-9"); 2000, Moscow, Krimsky Val; 2003, Moscow, hall of Union on "Run"; 2004, Moscow, Krimsky Val, "Russia-10"; 2006, Kurgan, Russian watercolor exhibition), international (1991, Paris) exhibitions.
Personal exhibition of the author was held in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Orenburg, Novotroitsk and other cities.
Major works: "Christmas", 1998; "Coming for Christmas", 2000; "Old town", 1989; "My childhood", 1997; "Silence", 1987; "White night", 1985; "summer is Ended", 1997; "First snow", 1989; "Strada", 1979; "Northern autumn", 1994; "Yanko Kupala", 1996; "a Warm September", 2004; "Autumn bells", 1998; "Spring song", 1998; "Spring. First of may", 1978.
Work N.In. Leontiev kept in art galleries Kurgan, Orsk, Satka, Buzuluk, as well as in private collections in many cities of Russia and abroad: in France, Germany, Italy, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan.
