Leonid Bakshtaev was born on May 10, 1934 in village Dobryn, Elsk Raion, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Dabryn, Jelsk District, Gomel Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Phaeton an Erde (1981), Prostyye zaboty (1975) and Tretye pokoleniye (1985). He died on July 29, 1995 in Kyiv, Ukraine.