Leonid Tsypkin1926 was born in a Russian Jewish family in Minsk, and his parents were doctors. Mother Vera Brick treats tuberculosis, and father Boris Zpkin is a plastic surgeon. 1934, the authorities arrested Boris Tzipkin on trumped-up charges that were common at that time. In prison, he jumped down the stairwell and attempted suicide. He was released only after the intervention of an influential friend. He broke his spine, lay on a stretcher and was carried home. However, he did not become a cripple, but continued to practice medicine until 196 1 died at the age of 64. Boris Zpkin's two sisters and one brother both died during that period.

194 1 A week after the German invasion, Minsk fell, and Boris Tzipkin's mother, another sister and two little nephews were killed in the Jewish community in Minsk. Thanks to the head of a collective farm nearby, Boris Tzipkins and Leonid, aged 15, escaped from the city. Boris Zpkin has seen the field director before, so the field director is very grateful to the doctor. He unloaded buckets of kimchi from the truck to make room for a respected plastic surgeon and his family.

A year later, Leonid began to study medicine. After the war, he and his parents returned to Minsk and 1947 graduated from the local medical school. 1948, he married the economist Natalya Miknikova. Their only son, Mikhail, was born in 1950. Tsypkin managed to get a job in a rural mental hospital and hid for several years. 1957, he was allowed to live in Moscow with his wife and children. Here, he obtained the position of pathologist in the famous Institute of Polio and Viral Encephalitis. Became a member of the team that introduced Sabin oral polio vaccine into the Soviet Union. His later work in the institute reflected his extensive research interests, including the reaction of tumor tissue to deadly virus infection, the biological and pathological research of monkeys and so on.

Tzipkin loves literature and always wants to write something for himself. His works include novels and poems. In his early twenties, when he was about to finish his studies, he considered giving up medicine and engaging in literature, specializing in literary creation.

Torture/kloc-Russian soul in the 0/9th century (e.g. how to live without faith? How can we live without God? ), he regarded Tolstoy as an idol. Later, Dostoevsky replaced Tolstoy and became his idol. In the movie, Tzipkin also has idols, such as antonioni, but not Tarkovsky. In the early 1960s, he considered enrolling in evening classes at the Film Academy and then becoming a director. However, he later said that he was forced to give up the idea because of the family burden.

At the same time, Tzipkin is rich in ideas and more actively devoted to poetry creation. According to his son, these poems are deeply influenced by the poetic styles of Zvetayeva and Pasternak. The portraits of these two poets hang in front of his small workbench. 1September, 965, Tzipkin decided to show Andrei Xinyavsky some lyric poems and try his luck. Unfortunately, just a few days before their date, Sinyavski was arrested. In this way, Zpkin and Xinyavsky, who is one year older than him, have never met. Since then, Zpkin has become more cautious. (Mikhail said: "Father doesn't like to talk about politics. He doesn't even think about it." ) After the hopes of publishing poetry were dashed several times, Tzipkin didn't write for a while. His time is mainly used to complete the thesis "Study on the Morphological and Biological Characteristics of Trypsinized Tissue in Cell Culture" written for obtaining a doctor's degree (his previous thesis with an associate doctor's degree studied the growth rate of brain tumors after repeated operations). 1969 doctoral thesis defense. Zpkin will get a raise soon. So he doesn't have to go to a small hospital to work as a pathologist to earn extra money. By this time he was over forty years old, so he quickly picked up a pen again. However, this time I am not writing poetry, but writing novels.