Born September 20, 1933 in the city of Gorky Lukoyanova area. Since 1940, he lived in Sverdlovsk, where in 1951 graduated from the school N 40. By specialty - Geophysicist. He graduated in 1956, the Geophysical Department of the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute. VV Vakhrusheva (now the Ural State Academy of Mining and Geology - UGGGA). After graduation worked in the Middle, Southern, Polar, Polar Urals, Bashkortostan, in central Kazakhstan, on the peninsula Mangyshlak on Embe, the plateau of Ust-Urt, in Transbaikalia, on the Kolyma, as well as in Mongolia and the People's Republic of the first group of Soviet geologists - the Republic of Indonesia.

In addition to work in the field of geological parties and expeditions organized and led by the computing centers in the Urals Geological Survey in Sverdlovsk and the union Polyarnouralgeologiya, is located in Vorkuta. Over the Arctic Circle, he has worked for over 12 years. In early 1992, in Sverdlovsk, he organized and led by manufacturing and innovation enterprise URALPRIM. Leo Zonov now lives in Yekaterinburg, grown daughter, has two grandchildren.

For years, student name Lev Zonov firmly connected with the author's song. First, he wrote the words to popular melodies, but in 1964 he met with Bulat Okudzhava, and as he repeatedly told during the concerts, to hold two days and two nights in a society Maître and his wonderful songs. Then Bulat Shalvovich, listen to his songs, advised him to try to pick their own tunes. And this summer at Lions Zonov has several songs, and with his words and his music. And in 1965, was his first public speech in the House of Artists city of Sverdlovsk, where the oral journal "Creativity", edited by Leo Sorokin was a poet, he was given a page called "Songs from the taiga fire." In 1967, the first author of Lev Zonov concert hall in the Urals Polytechnic Institute, which at that time functioned Sverdlovsk city club songs, organized and led by Eugene Goronkovym and Yuri Chechulinym.

In the same year, his songs heard on the radio station "Youth" in the transfer by the journalist and bards Boris Vahnyukom. In 1968, he trusted, along with Alexander Dolsk to represent the city of Sverdlovsk in the All-Union Festival of the author's songs in Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk, where Uralic authors were warmly accepted by listeners. In the sixties and eighties Leo Zonov often acted not only in Sverdlovsk, where he took part in the Days of the Ural literature but also in Leningrad, Moscow, Alma-Ata, Tashkent, Kiev, Vorkuta, Irkutsk, performing his own songs under their own guitar accompaniment. His songs sounded on the Sverdlovsk and Vorkuta radio and television, appeared in the geological factory "Urals Geologist, Geologist of the North", as well as in urban and central newspapers magazines, have been included in several collections of the author's dog, nor issued by the central publishing houses: "People go around the world "(published in the Soviet composer, 1989.)" Among nehozhenyh road one - my "(published by Profizdat, 1989.)" People come to light "(published in Physiotherapy, 1990.) "Negasnuschy fire" (published by Geoinformmark, 1998).. In addition, individual songs have been included in many collections issued by local publishers.

In 1996, the first CD of Leo Zonov "I often leave ...", which includes 28 songs. As a tribute to the past of our poet Lev Sorokin, who first brought its author's songs in venues, the disc has a second name - "Songs from the taiga fire" (the title page in the above-mentioned oral magazine "Express"). In creating this CD participated Sergei Vladimir - musical director of ensemble "Grenada", which the foreign press called supermultiinstrumentalistom (he has gathered a unique collection - about 400 musical instruments of the world's peoples, and each instrument speaks perfectly, for what is in the Guinness Book of Records). He made arrangements for the accompaniment of two guitars and a guitar adorned with his beautiful songs on the disc.

In 1997, the 80 th anniversary of the Ural State Mining and Geological Academy, saw the first full collection of the author of Leo Zonov, "Look into the sky more often ..." including 80 songs and poems. In the same year in Vorkuta was released audio cassette "Songs of Vorkuta, which included two songs by Leo Zonov and in Yekaterinburg has a CD" My Native Plant ...", dedicated to the anniversary of Ekaterinburg the plant for processing non-ferrous metals, which including three of his songs.

In December 1997, the program "Music Around Us" Sverdlovsk State TV and heard 50-minute, on the creativity of Leo Zonov (by Victor Popov). In 1998 came audiocassette "I often leave ...", a studio recording," New Projects "Viktor Zaitsev collection series" Bards of Russia has released audio cassette "Songs from the taiga fire." In honor of 75 anniversary of Aeroflot commemorated in February 1998, was issued a special anniversary CD-ROM "and requests the heart of fly ...", which included one of the best-known songs by Leo Zonov" I often leave ...". In 1997, during the celebration of Day of the city, he attended a concert of the authors, artists, held in the historic town square, and in 1998 in the days of the anniversary the city - in the final concert, organized by radio station "Studio City, where his performing the song "Waltz of Ekaterinburg.

In total he created some 150 songs, among them except for geological and marching, a lot of lyrical and funny, there are parodies of many well-known bards. In addition, more than 20 songs (mostly lyrical) were written by him on the words of a famous poet Lev Sverdlov Sorokina. But, most importantly, his songs (most often such as "Song of the wind", "Palatochka under the spruces, voluble river, marsh-anthem tourists "Europe-Asia", "Where are we the devils suffered ...") sounded and played with fire and geologic tents, and the author continues, as he jokingly said, in free from work and from time to compose and perform new songs. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.