Elyashov Leonid (1898, Riga — 1938) — military physician. Born into a bourgeois family. Father — Elyashov Eizhens Moritsevich, property owner, honorary citizen of Riga, candidate in commercial sciences. In his youth, E. participated in a Marxist circle. In 1915, came to St Petersburg and studied at the classical gymnasium of the Faculty of History and Philology of St Petersburg University. In 1916, placed under police surveillance. In 1917, graduated from the gymnasium with a gold medal and enrolled in the Military Medical Academy. During the Revolution, was in Petrograd and took part in the capture of the Vladimir Cadet School. From 1918, studied at the medical faculty of the University of Tartu and carried out underground work among students, workers and soldiers. From 1919, participated in the Civil War. In 1926, graduated from the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad; from 1928, worked as chief physician at the Leningrad neurology clinic; from this time also held senior posts in military medicine. In 1937, was expelled from the Communist Party, demobilised, arrested and sentenced to 10 years without right of correspondence. Was shot in 1938.