[1] Born in 1937 in Tashkent, Lev's father Waldemar reportedly was of German familial origin rumored of Nußberg gardeners, but the Von Nusbergs appear to at some point in history lost the aristocratic prefix "von".
Waldemar, an architect, in 1938 was accused of "spying for a foreign power" and, following a quick Soviet era conviction, disappeared while incarcerated as a prisoner of a gulag in Urals.
Lev's mother, born Raisa Bespalova, was a Russian singer.
Nussberg is best known for being the founder and leader of the influential Dvizheniye Group (1962–78) whose members included Francisco Infante-Arana and Viacheslav Koleichuk.
The aim of the Dvizheniye (Russian for "movement") collective was to create and develop in the 'bio-centric' movement the group essentially pioneered, called Игровые Бионик-кинетических Системы [playful bionic-kinetic systems].