Leonid Petrovich Baikov graduated from the Academy of Arts (Leningrad) in 1952.  He became a member of the Commonwealth of Artists in 1953.

Besides his creative work in St. Petersburg, the artist spent much time working and living in his country house on the beach of Mstino Lake, the academic town area.

Mr. Baikov lived among other such adored Soviet Master Painters such as Tokarev, Pomanichev, Kugach, the Tkachev brothers, Nicolai Timkov, who were his close neighbors.