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The player's father Boris Moiseevich Listengarten was a famous petroleum geologist (became chief geologist in Baku's largest oil producing trust in the 1930s). In 1949, 12 years later, he (after a death threatening rollercoaster of a career under Stalin's reign) became the chief geologist of this still largest oil-producing trust in the republic, Leninneft. In this position he worked for another 15 years, he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor and the title of Honored Engineer. In 1964, Boris Moiseevich moved to the position of Head of the Laboratory of the Research Institute of Deep Oil and Gas Fields of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences and prolonged a lifelong scientific academic career.
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His son Leonid in 1957 (at 22 years old) graduated from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University and received the title of engineer-geologist, with a degree in 'Hydrogeology' (see https://www.researchgate.net/profil...). Thus, he inherited his father's profession. Leonid Borisovich has been fond of playing chess since his school years. Became an international master of sports. He was the champion of Azerbaijan (1955), played for the Azerbaijani team in more than 10 championships of the USSR, where his opponents were such famous grandmasters as M. Tal, B. Spassky, V. Smyslov, D. Bronstein, L. Polugaevsky, Y. Averbakh, L. Stein, G. Kasparov and many others. At some point, the question arose - either the struggle for the title of grandmaster, or the concentration of all efforts and time on scientific work. Under the influence of his 'famous' father, the question was resolved in favor of science, although in the future Leonid Borisovich, as far as possible, participated in various chess battles. He emigrated to the United States.
In an short article Leonid Listengarten wrote for 'Our Baku - History of baku and people of Baku' (www.ourbaku.com) in 2017 he achieves one of the most detailed wraps of 1940s-1960s chess in the area out there:
My memory of the chess battles in Baku
https://www.ourbaku.com/index.php/%...
Objective Baku (documentary in English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWc...
For further studies use 'Petroleum Geology of the South Caspian Basin', Leonid A. Buryakovsky, George V. Chilingar and Fred Aminzadehi. Gulf Professional Publishing, 2001
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