Leonid Sarafanov (born 28 June 1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a principal ballet dancer with the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.
Leonid Sarafanov studied at the Kyiv State School of Choreography and graduated in 2000, joining the National Ballet of Ukraine the same year as soloist.
[1] In 2002, he was invited to join the Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg by the director of the time, Makhar Vaziev and quickly became famous.
His repertoire includes James in La Sylphide, Solor in La Bayadère, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake, the Nutcracker-Prince in The Nutcracker, Prince Désiré in The Sleeping Beauty, Basilio in Don Quixote, and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.
Sarafanov's wife is Mariinsky ballerina, Olesya Novikova; the couple lives in St Petersburg with their four children.