Leonid Shulpin

Shulpin was born in Moscow, where his father Mikhail Ivanovich, originally from Karsun, worked as an accountant.

In 1926 he joined expeditions into the south Ussuri region and the Primorye in the next two year.

He then joined the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and began to work under Petr Sushkin from 1929.

While serving with the 218th Infantry Regiment he was hit by a shell fragment and died during surgery.

He was buried in a nearby village in Pogostye but later reburied at the New Maluksa memorial in Leningrad.