Leopold Ivanovych Taburyanskyi was born 22 July 1940 in the city of Kryvyi Rih,[1] located in southeastern Ukraine.

From 1954 to 1958 he studied at the Dnipropetrovsk Industrial College, subsequently serving as a conscript in the Soviet Army for a year in 1959.

[2] On 4 March 1990, Taburyanskyi was elected with 64.05% votes (out of 6 candidates) as a member of Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of the Ukrainian SSR.

On 27 September 1991, he established the People's Party of Ukraine (1991–93) and in December 1991 participated in the presidential elections where he gathered some 182,713 votes placing last (0.57%).

In 2000-01 he participated in the protest Ukraine without Kuchma and was one of those who undersigned the declaration of the Civil Committee in protection of Constitution.