He began writing poetry in childhood. In 1962 he entered the literary studio at the district library. Several of his poems were published in the newspaper
Pionerskaya Pravda. Then he became interested in
futurism and created a neo-futuristic
samizdat magazine. Then he entered the literary studio of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers. Famous poets paid attention to him. In 1964,
Yevgeny Yevtushenko helped to print an excerpt from a poem by Leonid Gubanov in the magazine
Yunost. This publication was the last publication of Leonid Gubanov in the Soviet press. He died on 8 September 1983 at the age of thirty-seven, and was buried in Moscow at the
Khovanskoye Cemetery. In 1994, the first compilation of Leonid Gubanov,
The Angel in the Snow, was published by the publishing house IMA-PRESS. ==Personal life==