Lev Sheynin was born on March 25, 1906 in village Brusanovka, Velizh uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Velizhsky District, Smolensk Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for
Vstrecha na Elbe (1949),
Tsepnaya reaktsiya (1962) and
Nochnoy patrul (1957). He died on May 11, 1967 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].