Outstanding Soviet urban architect Lev Alexandrovich Ilyin(1880-1942) was born in Tambov on June 13 (25), 1880. Father, Alexander Alexandrovich Ilyin, was an amateur artist and had a great influence on the initial aesthetic and artistic development of his son. In 1897, L.A. Ilyin arrived in St. Petersburg and entered the Institute of Civil Engineers. Simultaneously with his studies at the institute, he began his architectural practice - he worked as an assistant to a city architect in his native Tambov. After graduating from the institute in 1902, for some time, to complete his art education, he studied at the Academy of Arts, in the workshop of Professor L. N. Benois.

In the first years of independent work, L. A. Ilyin showed himself to be an active and talented architect. He becomes a member of the St. Petersburg Society of Architects and the Society of Civil Engineers. For many years - from 1902 until the revolution itself - he has been doing a lot of public work in these societies: he participates in the work of the competition jury, and is elected to the board of the Society of Civil Engineers. Throughout the pre-revolutionary years, L.A. Ilyin takes an active part in numerous competitions, and his projects are constantly awarded with prizes *. In 1908, the St. Petersburg Society of Architects included L. A. Ilyin in its committee for the preparation of an exhibition of Russian architecture at the VIII International Congress of Architects, to which L. A. Ilyin took part. In the same year, from the Society of Civil Engineers, Ilyin became a member of the organizing committee of the International Building and Art Exhibition, which is being organized in St. Petersburg. In 1910, L.A. Ilyin was elected to the preparatory committee, which was preparing the convocation of the IV Congress of Russian Architects (January 1911, St. Petersburg).

Among the pre-revolutionary works of L.A. Ilyin, special attention deserves - a huge complex of buildings of the Peter the Great hospital (now named after Mechnikov) and the architecture of a number of city bridges - Mikhailovsky (now Sadovoy), Panteleimonovsky (now Pestel's bridge), both at the Field of Mars, Narodny bridge on the Moika near Nevsky Prospect and Vvedensky bridge near the Vitebsky railway station.

After the Great October Socialist Revolution, Ilyin took part in the creation of the Museum of the City (now the Museum of the History of Leningrad), founded in 1918 by decree signed by A.V. Lunacharsky. L. A. Ilyin was the first director of the museum from 1918 to 1935. At the same time, he took part in the work of the Scientific Committee for Urban Planning at the Scientific Bureau of Urban Planning of the Department of Public Utilities of the Petrograd Soviet (1921-1923). The task of the scientific bureau was to draw up the first proposals for the settlement of the Petrograd plan.

In 1925, Ilyin became the chief architect of Leningrad and remained in this post until 1938. Under his leadership, the first Soviet master plan for the development of Leningrad * was developed, according to which the actual transformation of the city was carried out throughout all the pre-war years. Perspective proposals of the first version of the general plan (1933) are used in the modern general plan for the development of the city, approved by the Council of Ministers in July 1966, and are being implemented in today's construction practice of Leningrad.

* Worked on the general plan of the city: V. A. Vitman, L. M. Tverskoy, E. I. Katonin, B. V. Danilov, E. K. Reimers, A. I. Dmitriev and others.

According to the projects developed by L.A. Ilyin, reconstruction and transformation into a boulevard esplanade of Bolshoy Prospect of Vasilyevsky Island and Moskovsky Prospect, landscaping and landscaping of Litovsky Prospect were carried out, a parterre square was created on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island near the building of the former. Exchanges, the arrow on the Elagin Island has been completed. L. A. Ilyin also seriously dealt with the problems of housing construction: he developed new principles for the development of socialist residential quarters, designed and built residential building No. 79 on Moskovsky Prospekt, which is now taken under state protection as a monument of Soviet architecture.

As a major urban planner, Ilyin put a lot of effort and creative work into the transformation of a number of cities in our country: Petrozavodsk, Ivanov, Yaroslavl, Baku, etc. The General Development Plan of Baku, approved in 1937, became the basis for a radical transformation of the capital of Soviet Azerbaijan.

Ilyin devoted a lot of time and effort to social work. He was among the organizers of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Soviet Architects. In 1932 he was elected a member of the central board of the union and its Leningrad branch.

L. A. Ilyin left a great theoretical legacy - all the years of Soviet power, he wrote a lot on various problems of architecture and urban planning. He penned many important articles on the history of Russian and Soviet architecture, on the leading problems of urban planning, planning, growth and formation of cities. L. A. Ilyin was a corresponding member of the All-Union Academy of Architecture, professor, doctor of architecture. Ilyin continued his work as a scientist and propagandist in the difficult years of the siege in besieged Leningrad. He created a unique manuscript "Walks in Leningrad", dedicated to the analysis of the classical architecture of St. Petersburg - Leningrad.

Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin died on December 11, 1942 during an artillery bombardment, making the last of his wonderful walks in Leningrad.

Lev Ilyin

In the glorious galaxy of names that adorn the stone chronicle of St. Petersburg, there is the name of the architect and artist, architectural historian and teacher, the first chief architect of Leningrad, Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin. His creative path lasted for about 40 years. L.A. Ilyin was born in 1880 in Tambov, into an intelligent family. An artistically gifted father instilled in him a love of art. The main school for the future architect was the Institute of Civil Engineers, where he studied from 1897 to 1902 and with which he was associated for many years.

At the beginning of L.A. Ilyin collaborated with the architect A.F. Bubyrem. Not all of their plans were realized, however L.A. Ilyin gained extensive experience in design and construction practice. The best of the joint buildings is the school at the Church of St. Anna (now - Kirochnaya St., 8), built in 1906 next to a residential building overlooking Furshtatskaya St., 9, also built according to the project of A.F. Bubyr and L.A. Ilyin.

L.A. Ilyin

School on Kirochnaya street

In 1908, on Kamenny Island and in Novaya Derevnya, many architectural and engineering structures of an international building and art exhibition appeared, at which both Russian architects and builders showed your skills. Among the buildings were 2 pavilions built by L.A. Ilyin. This is the pavilion of the Bodo-Egesdorf company built of reinforced concrete and the pavilion of the products of the plant of the heirs of Count Shuvalov - in the style of the Peter the Great era.

Exchange Square

Ilyin studied the ancient bridges of St. Petersburg well and dedicated one of his lectures to them. This gave him the opportunity to carry out a number of bridge projects that organically entered the historic center of the city. L.A. Ilyin expanded the Zeleny Bridge across the Moika along Nevsky Prospect, decorated it with ornaments and floor lamps (1904–1907). In 1907–1908, he rebuilt the Garden Bridge across the Moika River, replacing the vault with metal trusses. In the 1910s L.A. Ilyin together with A.I. Zazersky carries out the project of the Panteleimonovsky bridge. In the projects of bridges, the architect successfully used the motifs of bridges from the first third of the 19th century. He wins the competition for the project of the city hospital named after Peter the Great (named after Mechnikov, Piskarevsky prospect, 47), in which the largest architects of the city took part. The competition has become a notable event in the cultural life of the capital. Publications about him occupied a large place on the pages of the Zodchiy magazine. The success of L.A. Ilyin was preceded by a trip to Western Europe, where he thoroughly studied the state of hospital construction. In Holland, the architect saw the monuments of architecture that influenced the early architecture of our city - "Peter's Baroque".

After the revolution L.A. Ilyin pays special attention to urban planning issues. He was the first director of the City History Museum (1918–1935).

In 1924 L.A. Ilyin developed a project for a public center in Narva district, conceived as two squares connected by a street (Stachek square and the square in front of the Kirov district council). The architect's suggestions were the basis for the further development of the project. In 1925-1938, Ilyin worked as the chief architect of Leningrad and created a project for the first general plan of the city in Soviet times. He designed in the regular style the square in front of the Stock Exchange and the arrow of the Elagin Island, decorated with sculptures of lions. According to the projects of L.A. Ilyin, the largest city highways were reconstructed - Bolshoy Prospekt on Vasilyevsky Island (a boulevard was built here) and Litovskiy Prospekt (landscaping and landscaping).

Rice. L.A. Ilyin. Winter groove. 1942 g.

The planning project of Leningrad provided for the development of some streets and avenues of the old city, in particular, the continuation of Marata Street to Klinsky Avenue. Under his leadership, the general plan of Moscow Square was developed, on the basis of which a new ensemble of Leningrad was created. In 1938-1945, according to the project of L.A. Ilyina and A.M. Arnold, a large residential building number 79 was erected on Moskovsky Prospekt. The building has 426 apartments.

The building is characterized by a symmetrical composition of the facade, restrained plastic, strict rhythm of the openings. Its appearance is enriched by the introduction of color, well-proportioned bay windows and a few decorative details. In the image of a house, one of the best buildings in pre-war Leningrad, the new principles of development of residential quarters (the main square, laid out in front of the building) were embodied. The building is under state protection as an architectural monument.

The activity of L.A. Ilyin as a historian of architecture, a propagandist of Russian architecture. His articles on Russian national architecture, Petersburg-Leningrad are imbued with an understanding of the national character of Petersburg architecture, the desire to preserve its historically established center and develop rich architectural traditions. Ilyin was one of the organizers and leaders of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Architects of the USSR, a corresponding member of the All-Russian Academy of Architecture, professor, doctor of architecture.

As a city planner, L.A. Ilyin did not confine himself to questions of planning and development of Leningrad. He participated in the reconstruction of Yaroslavl, Ivanov, Petrozavodsk, Baku, where he, as the chief architect of the city, participated in the development of the general plan. For the Azerbaijani capital L.A. Ilyin completed the planning project for the Nagorny Park named after S.M. Kirov (1939) and the architectural part of the monument to S.M. Kirov.

And in the days of the heroic defense of the city, the architect continues to work tirelessly. He did not have time to implement many of his plans. December 11, 1942 L.A. Ilyin was killed by a splinter of a German shell on the Fontanka embankment. His name will forever remain in the history of Russian architecture.

In 1923, to the discontent of the avant-gardists, in the competition for the project of the Palace of Labor in Moscow, the project of the Petrograd architect N.A. Trotsky in the style of "revolutionary romanticism". The Vesnin brothers' project, later called the Constructivist Manifesto, received only the third prize. However, the growing influence of supporters of "modern" architecture after 1923 actually led to a rift between Moscow and Leningrad architects. In 1928-1929. during the competition for the design of the building of the Library. Lenin commissioned project of the Leningrad architect-academician V.A. Shchuko drew a storm of criticism from Moscow architectural organizations. At the same time, this project largely anticipated the appeal to the "historical heritage" proclaimed in 1932. It was then that the leading masters of Leningrad, graduates of the Academy of Arts, were involved in the development of the final project of the Palace of Soviets and to work on the project for the reconstruction of Moscow. abandoned their beliefs.

While the avant-garde in the first half of the 1920s. dreamed of building up Moscow with new buildings made of glass and concrete, and in the late 1920s. - to re-plan, abandoning the historical radial-ring structure, Leningrad architects in the reconstruction of the city continued to follow the traditions and principles that took shape in the first decades of the twentieth century. One of these architects was Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin.

L.A. Ilyin was born on July 18, 1880 in Tambov. In 1897 he entered the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers, during his studies he began working as an assistant to a city architect in Tambov. After graduating from the institute in 1902, Ilyin studied for some time in the workshop of L.N. Benois at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. As Ilyin himself later wrote: “I never graduated from the Academy, to my great regret. Some of the then professional life success, and perhaps age, did not allow me to take my own intentions and the attention that L.N. Benois ". In 1906, in collaboration with engineers Klein and Rosenberg, he took part in a competition for the design of the Peter the Great hospital. “In parallel with the construction of the hospital, which lasted until 1916, L.A. Ilyin participates in numerous competitions and exhibits his works at Russian and international architectural exhibitions and congresses in Vienna, Rome and Malmo (Sweden). " In the 1910s. Ilyin is involved in the construction of several new bridges in St. Petersburg, including on Nevsky Prospekt.

In 1918 L.A. Ilyin becomes the director of the Museum of the City, created in Petrograd. At the end of 1923, on his initiative, an urban planning workshop was created at the Museum - the Commission for the Redevelopment of Petrograd. This Commission receives materials from the Fomin Architectural Workshop, which has been working on the city planning project since 1918. In 1924, the Commission was transformed into the Leningrad Redevelopment Bureau, and in 1925 - into the City Planning Department (under the leadership of L.A. Ilyin ) at the subdivision of improvement of the Department of communal services of the Gubispolkom. In 1925-1926. according to Ilyin's project, a square in front of the Exchange building is being drawn up, in 1926-1927. - arrow of Elagin island. Until 1938, despite frequent reorganization of the design and planning business, he headed the work on the city planning project.

Even after the rejection in August 1935 of the actually finished project, the team of the Architectural and Planning Department of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council (APO) under the leadership of L.A. Ilyina wins an urgent competition for the Scheme of the Leningrad redevelopment project. The scheme is being finalized and approved in December 1935. As in the developments of the late 1920s, it provides for the development of the city in a southern direction with a central axis along the Moscow highway. At the intersection of the highway with the newly designed main arc highway, a new city center with the House of Soviets is planned.

In 1936, the competition project of the House of Soviets L.A. Ilyina is recognized as one of the best, but the project of N.A. Trotsky. Two years later, Ilyin will say: “This important competitive project, unfortunately, was made by me during three weeks, while others worked on the project much more. I worked for three weeks not because I ignored this big task, but because at that time I was finishing work on the planning of the center of Moscow. "

The official biographies of L.A. are silent about this fact. Ilyin. They contain references to his great work (as chief architect and consultant) on the draft of the general plan of Baku in 1930-1936, on his work on similar projects for Petrozavodsk, Ivanov, Yaroslavl, etc. articles of the 1930s, dedicated to the reconstruction of Moscow. Only in the publication in 1936 in the journal Architecture of the USSR, dedicated to the completion of the first stage of detailing the General Plan of 1935, in the captions to the illustrations, Ilyin is mentioned as one of the authors of some projects of the Architectural and Planning Workshop No. 2, in particular the project for the reconstruction of Red Square. Later, in a 1945 article dedicated to the memory of the architect, A. Bunin mentions (without specifying the date) that Ilyin developed for Moscow a project for the avenue of the Palace of Soviets (Ilyich Alley from the Palace of Soviets to Vorobyovy Gory). Thus, based on the two references and the words of the architect himself, it can be assumed that in 1936 Ilyin took an active part in the work of the architectural and planning workshop No. 2, which was responsible for the development of the project for the reconstruction of the center of Moscow. (It is important that the head of the workshop was V.A.Shchuko, the same age as Ilyin, also from Tambov, with whom they studied at the Academy of Arts under L.N. Benois at about the same time, and later worked together on a number of projects for Leningrad).

Despite the strangeness of the situation when the chief architect of Leningrad is involved in the work on such a crucial fragment of the General Plan for the reconstruction of Moscow, it was quite natural. It was by 1936 that the concept of the reconstruction of Moscow was finally formed, based on the idea of ​​assimilating Moscow to old Petersburg, and the experience of such a specialist as Ilyin was invaluable. In the drawings and sketches created with his participation, it was possible to overcome the desire that existed in Moscow to build up the center with grandiose departmental buildings and create the desired image of an integral ensemble subordinate to a single dominant - the Palace of Soviets. And although Ilyin's proposal did not receive further development, the sketches of 1936 became the culmination of the entire long process of developing a project for the reconstruction of Moscow and its central core in the 1930s.

However, after 1936 Ilyin was no longer in demand as much as before. In 1938, the Leningrad planning project developed under his leadership was criticized, and Ilyin's team was suspended from work. One of the most prominent architects of Soviet Leningrad in the 1930s. became a professor at the Leningrad Institute of Utilities Engineers.

December 11, 1942 Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin was killed in the shelling of Leningrad.
Ilyin L.A. My creative path // Architecture of Leningrad. - 1938. - No. 2. - P. 59.
Bunin A. In memory of Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin (To the 2nd anniversary of his death) // Architecture of the USSR. - 1945. - No. 9. - P. 39.
The deviation of the developed project was connected both with the new guidelines announced in connection with the adoption of the General Plan of Moscow, and with the deterioration of relations with Finland, to the borders of which the projected "Big Leningrad" approached. An important factor was the appearance at the head of the party leadership of Leningrad A.A. Zhdanov, who sought to delete S.M. Kirov - his predecessor - from the history of the city.
Ilyin L.A. My creative path // Architecture of Leningrad. - 1938. - No. 2. - P. 65.
Bulushev A. Planning of Moscow at a new stage // Architecture of the USSR. - 1936. - No. 8. - S. 8-9.

Architect Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin was born on June 13, 1880 in the village of Podosklyay, Tambov district, in the family of the lawyer Alexander Aleksandrovich Ilyin. The father was preparing a military career for his son, so Lev entered the St. Petersburg Alexander Cadet Corps. But the boy was attracted to art. Against the wishes of his father, in 1897 he entered the Institute of Civil Engineers. Due to a quarrel with Alexander Alexandrovich, he was for some time without financial support, so it was too early to earn a living on his own.

After graduating from the institute, without even having time to get a diploma, Lev Alexandrovich went on a trip to Italy. Abroad, he felt a lack of art education. In October 1903 he became a student of the architectural workshop of the famous architect L. N. Benois at the Academy of Arts.

The beginning of the creative career of Lev Aleksandrovich took place in cooperation with a colleague civil engineer A.F.Bubyr. Their most famous building in 1906 was a school near Annenkirche (Kirochnaya st., 8). Before that, they also built a dwelling house nearby (Furshtatskaya st. 9). In the same 1906, Ilyin designed the facade of house No. 3 on Dobrolyubov Avenue. Together with AI Klein, he built house No. 66 on Zagorodny Prospect.

Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin in the 1910s became the author of the project of the new Panteleimonovsky Bridge, which replaced the old Chain Bridge across the Fontanka. He was also involved in the expansion of the Green Bridge.

The main work of Ilyin before the Revolution was the complex of the city hospital named after Peter the Great. Architects A. I. Klein and A. V. Rosenberg worked with him on this project. While working on a project for a hospital complex, Ilyin faced a serious urban planning challenge for the first time. Here he did not embed a new building into an already established environment, but created a whole quarter, which was decided as an integral architectural ensemble.

For his family, the architect built a two-story mansion (24 Pesochnaya Embankment), which, unfortunately, has not survived.

Lev Aleksandrovich was an active member of the Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of Architects and Artists, and was active in teaching. In 1921 he became chairman of the "Old Petersburg" society, for several years he was a member of the editorial board of the "Architect" magazine.

From 1918 to 1928, L.A. Ilyin was the director (first) of the City Museum, housed in the Anichkov Palace. Thanks to the scientific activity of this museum, the architect received a sufficient amount of theoretical knowledge in the field of urban planning. In the mid-1920s, he became involved in the design work of the Department of Communal Services (Otkomhoz), which was in charge of the museum.

At the end of 1923, Ilyin created the Commission for the Redevelopment of Petrograd, on the basis of which a bureau for the planning of Leningrad was later created. As a rule, projects in the bureau were created collectively, but three of them Ilyin completed personally. He designed the arrow of the Elagin island, which suffered from the flood on September 24, 1924. He also remodeled the square on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island, was engaged in the reconstruction of the Leningrad Zoo.

When the Planning Bureau of Leningrad began to engage in the placement of housing estates for workers on new urban spaces, Lev Aleksandrovich actually became the chief architect of the city. He drew up a zoning scheme for Leningrad, which determined the prospects for the development of the city for many years to come. On his initiative, new industrial construction in the historical center was stopped, and hazardous industries were moved to the outskirts.

In 1940, without defending a thesis, Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Architecture. The next year he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Architecture, became a professor.

Lev Aleksandrovich Ilyin died during the bombing of Leningrad by fascist troops during the blockade. He was buried at Literatorskie Mostki.

Leonid Ilyin, Honorary President of the A.I. Burnazyan, First Deputy General Director of FMBC, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor

After graduating from the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute with honors in 1953, Leonid Ilyin served in the Navy. He was the head of the medical service of a battleship, then he created the first radiological laboratory in the Black Sea Fleet. After demobilization, he worked in Leningrad as a senior researcher in the biomedical department of the Research Institute of the USSR Navy. In 1961, he was elected by competition as the head of the radiation protection laboratory of the Leningrad Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, in 1962 he was appointed deputy director for scientific work of this institute.

From 1968 to the present, Leonid Andreevich has been the director and scientific director of the State Scientific Center - the Institute of Biophysics, which was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1977 for the successes achieved in the development of medical science, health care and personnel training.

The main scientific research of L.A. Ilyin are devoted to the most important areas of radiation medicine: research and development of drugs and means of protecting the body from the effects of gamma-neutron radiation, the incorporation of radionuclides in the body and contact radioactive contamination of the skin, wounds and burns; development of medical and hygienic problems of protecting professionals and the public during the creation and development of new nuclear technologies and in the event of radiation accidents; regulation of permissible levels of human exposure; radiobiology of low-intensity radiation and predicting the stochastic consequences of radioactive exposure of people.

Thanks to the works of Leonid Andreevich, his students and employees, highly effective drugs for the prevention and treatment of acute radiation injuries have been created, tested and introduced into domestic practice. For example, the radioprotector indralin as a means of preventing gamma-neutron irradiation is adopted in the nuclear industry and energy, in the nuclear fleet and in other specialized organizations. The drug deoxinate is recommended as one of the most effective means of treating acute radiation injuries. As a result of L.A. Ilyin, to combat the incorporation of various radionuclides in the body, preparations have been developed and are being produced algisorb, ferrocin, stable iodine preparations and a group of complexones. The drug known to practitioners "Zashchita" is one of the most effective means for decontamination of the skin from the fission products of uranium and plutonium, etc. Ilyin, the development and implementation into the practice of the nuclear industry and power engineering of special portable first-aid kits for professionals and first-aid kits for the population with appropriate anti-radiation drugs for use in case of radiation accidents. Based on the ideas of Leonid Andreevich and with his direct participation, medico-biological means and special systems for protecting personnel from one of the types of nuclear weapons were developed, for which he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1985. He took part several times, including as a scientific advisor, in testing the developed drugs in field conditions. Veteran of Special Risk Units. Under the leadership and with the direct participation of L.A. Ilyin, domestic regulations for emergency exposure of people were developed and, for the first time in world practice (1971), methodological recommendations for protecting the population in the event of an accident at nuclear reactors. These developments and their further modification (1983) became fundamental in justifying measures to protect people during and after the Chernobyl accident.

From the first days and during the most difficult period of this disaster, he worked in the lesion focus, was one of the scientific leaders of medical, biological and hygienic work to mitigate the consequences of the accident, made fundamental decisions on the strategy and tactics of protecting people.

L.A. Ilyin is the first scientist in the world who developed and substantiated the forecast of the radiological consequences of this disaster, which was subsequently confirmed by leading foreign and domestic experts.

The theoretical works of Leonid Andreevich are devoted to one of the most pressing problems of radiation medicine and hygiene - the assessment of the real risks of human exposure and, on this basis, the regulation of the levels of low-intensity chronic exposure. He developed the concept of a “practical threshold” in radiation epidemiology and hygiene rationing.

Author and co-author of 15 monographs, textbooks, manuals and more than 300 scientific publications. Among them are such fundamental monographs as "Fundamentals of protection of the body from the effects of radioactive substances" (1977), "Radioactive iodine in the problem of radiation safety" (1972; translated into English, 1975), "Major radiation accidents: consequences and protective measures" ( 2001; translated into Japanese, 2003; English, 2004). The monograph by L.A. Ilyin's "Nuclear War: Medical and Biological Consequences" (1982, 1984), co-authored with E.I. Chazov and A.K. Guskova, was published in two editions and translated into five languages. This book played an important role in the world policy of preventing nuclear catastrophe as one of the first scientific substantiations and calculation estimates of the consequences of a thermonuclear war, indicating the impossibility of achieving victory in such a war. E.I. Chazov, L.A. Ilyin and A.M. Kuzin together with three American scientists B. Lown, G. Miller and E. Chevian in December 1980 in Geneva created the international movement "Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War." In 1985, this movement was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Scientific and journalistic book L.A. Ilyin's "Realities and Myths of Chernobyl" was published in two editions in Russia (1994, 1996), published in English (1995) and published in Japan (1998). In this monograph, the author for the first time, on the basis of his own research and work experience in Chernobyl, presented an objective picture of the medico-biological and psychosocial consequences of the disaster. Textbook L.A. Ilyin's "Radiation Hygiene" (co-authored with V.F. universities for training specialists in the field of radioecology, dosimetry and protection.

In 1974 he was elected a corresponding member, and in 1978 - a full member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.

From 1980 to 1984 he was a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Medical Sciences, from 1984 to 1990 - vice-president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. For two terms (1993-2000) he was elected a member of the Main Committee of the International Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP). Since 1972, he is the representative of the USSR, then the Russian Federation in the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). For 20 years he was the chairman of the NKRZ of the USSR. L.A. Ilyin - editor-in-chief of the journal "Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety" (2001).

L.A. Ilyin is a laureate of the Lenin (1985) and State Prizes of the USSR (1977), laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2000) and the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation (2001). For services to the country and outstanding achievements in the development of science about the effects of radiation on humans, L.A. Ilyin was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor in 1988.

Lives and works in Moscow.