Biography
Leonid Kogan
Real name: Леонид Борисович Коган
Effective period / Period of releases: 1950 - 2013
17 November 1924 - 17 December 1982. Soviet violinist. People's Artist of the USSR (1966). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1965). He was married to Elisabeth Gilels and is the father of Pavel Kogan and Nina Kogan.