Leonid Lebedev

Leonid Lebedev (born May 2, 1956) is a Cypriot-Russian businessman, and a former elected representative in Russia's Upper House of Parliament.

Lebedev is the former sole owner of Sintez Group, a privately held energy, oil and gas and property development company. With Alexander Zhukov and Mark Garber who was a director and asset manager at Fleming Family and Partners, he co-founded Soviet American joint venture SINTEZ International in 1988 and the Russia United Kingdom joint venture SINTEZ Corporation in January 1990, which he left in the early 2000s. According to Forbes Russia Sintez ranked 154th among private companies in Russia in 2012. According to Forbes, Leonid Lebedev is listed at position 162 with $750 million in 2021.

He has also been a businessman in music and film, serving as a producer, during the 1980s and more recently, in creating independent films such as Hipsters and The Geographer Drank His Globe Away.

In 2002, he was elected to the Federation Council (Russia), Russia's Upper House of Parliament, representing the Republic of Chuvashia until he retired form politics in 2015.