Born 05 февраля 1923 in Vitebsk (Belarus).

* Minsk Art College (1952).
* Belarusian Theatrical Art Institute (1959, now the Belarusian Academy of Arts).
* Member of the Union of Artists of the BSSR (1964; now the Belarusian Union of Artists).
* Lecturer at the Minsk Art School (1959-1966).
* Instructor in the Republican boarding school for music and fine arts (1968-1974).
* Instructor at the architectural department of the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute (1975-1977?, Now the Belarusian National Technical University).
* First Secretary of the Board of the Union of Artists of the BSSR (1977-1982).
* Chairman of the Board of the Art Foundation BSSR (1982-1986?).
* Member of the Board of the Union of Artists of the USSR (1983-1987).
* Member of the Board of the Belarusian Union of Artists (1992-2002).
* Chairman of the Belarusian Union of Artists (2002-2005).

AWARDS, HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS:

* Order of the "Patriotic War» I and II degrees, medals.
* Medal Skorina (1993), Order Skorina (2001).

* Bronze Medal VDNH USSR (1969, for the painting "Motherhood").
* Silver Medal VDNH USSR (1975, for the painting "General Dovator").
* Diploma of the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR (1975, second - 1983, in connection with the 60-and anniversary).
* State Prize of the BSSR (1982, for a series of paintings "The land mine, Minsk region": "Leaf", "storm June 22.", "Summer", "flax Ivenets").
* Honored Artist of the BSSR (1977).
* People's Artist of the BSSR (1983).
* Academician of Painting of the Belarusian Academy of Fine Arts (Non-Governmental Organization, 1995).
* Medal of the Belarusian Union of Artists "For заслугі ® выяўленчым of Arts" ( "For Merit in the Fine Arts") (1998).
* Big Gold Medal of the Belarusian Academy of Fine Arts (1998).
* Honorary Citizen of Minsk (2003).
* Badge of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus "For ўклад have razvitstse Belarusi culture" ( "For contribution to the development of Belarusian Culture") (2003).

PUBLIC MEETING:

Russia:
* The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow).
* Exhibition Association "Central House of Artists (Moscow).
* Funds of the Ministry of Culture of Russia.

Belarus:
* National Art Museum of Belarus (Minsk) - works in the permanent exhibition.
* Museum of Modern Art (Minsk).
* National Museum of History and Culture of Belarus (Minsk).
* Funds of the Belarusian Union of Artists (Minsk).
* Brest Regional Museum (Brest).
* Vitebsk Regional Museum (Vitebsk).
* Vitebsk Art Museum (Vitebsk).
* Museum Marc Chagall - Art Center (Collection of Modern Art) (Vitebsk).
* State historical and cultural establishment "Gomel Palace and Park Ensemble" (Gomel).
* Grodno State Historical and Archaeological Museum (Grodno).
* Mogilev Regional Museum im. ER Romanova (Mogilev).
* Mogilev Regional Art Museum. PV Maslennikov (Mogilev).
* In many areas of natural history museums in Belarus.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

1963 - Reports show (Minsk).
1965 - Reports show (Minsk).
1974 - personal, timed to 50 years (Minsk, published catalog).
1979 - Personal "on Vietnam" (Minsk).
1982 - personal, dedicated to the 60 th anniversary (Moscow, Central House of Artists, published catalog).
1983 - personal, dedicated to the 60 th anniversary (Minsk).
1987 - Personal (Minsk).
1988 - Personal (Minsk).
1989 - Personal (Grodno).
1990 - Personal (Vitebsk).
1991 - Personal (Orsha).
1993 - personal, dedicated to the 70 th (Minsk).
1997 - Personal (Minsk, published catalog).
1997 - Personal (Svetlogorsk).
1997 - Personal (Novopolotsk).
1998 - personal, dedicated to the 75 th anniversary (Minsk).
2001 - Personal (Minsk).
2002 - personal (Minsk, published catalog).
2003 - personal, dedicated to the 80 th anniversary and the opening of the Municipal Art Gallery of works by L. Schemelev (Minsk).
2004 - Personal (Minsk).
2005 - Personal (Minsk).
2006 - Personal (Minsk, art-gallery "Mastatstva" /"Art").
2006 - Personal (Minsk, City Art Gallery works L. Schemelev).
2007 - Personal (Minsk, National Art Museum).
2008 - Personal Artist and time "to mark the 85 th anniversary (Minsk, National Art Museum). [On this exhibition the artist said that it was his 26 th solo exhibition].

Where is called the "Minsk" (exhibitions since 1973), is due to exhibition building of the Belarusian Union of Artists - Republican Art Gallery "Мастацтваў Palace (" Palace of Art "). Exhibitions in the regional and district towns of Belarus - in the relevant regional and district local history museums.

JOINT EXHIBITIONS:

1965 - All-Union Exhibition of Art - children "(Moscow).
1967 - All-Union Exhibition, posvyaschennnaya 50 anniversary of the Great October Revolution (Moscow).
1968 - Exhibition of Fine and Applied Arts BSSR (Moscow, Exhibition Center, bronzavaya medal).
1972 - All-Union Exhibition of "Friendship" (Vilnius).
- All-Union Exhibition "Spring Jubilee" (Yerevan).
- Zonal exhibition of artists of Belarus and Moldova on the 50 th anniversary of the USSR (Moscow).
- Exhibition of the Belarusian art and graphics (Vilnius).
1975 - All-Union exhibition "30 years of the Great Victory", an exhibition of Belarusian painting, graphics and glass (Moscow, Exhibition Center, silver medal).
1976 - All-Union exhibition "Self-Portrait in Russian and Soviet art" (Moscow).
- All-Union exhibition "Glory to Labor!" Dedicated to the XXV Congress of the CPSU (Moscow).
1977 - All-Union exhibition "On the Leninist path", dedicated to the 60 anniversary of the Great October Revolution (Moscow).
- All-Union Exhibition of "Always on guard, posvyaschennnaya 60-th anniversary of the Soviet Militia (Moscow).
1978 - All-Union Exhibition of Young Guard of the Soviet Union ", dedicated to the 60 th anniversary of Komsomol (Moscow).
- All-Union exhibition "60 years of heroic, dedicated to the 60 th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR (Moscow).
1979 - All-Union Exhibition of "Physical Culture and Sport in the Fine Arts (Moscow).
1981 - All-Union exhibition "We are building communism", dedicated to the XXVI Congress of the CPSU (Moscow).
1982 - All-Union Exhibition of the USSR - our Homeland ", dedicated to 60 Anniversary of the USSR (Moscow).
- All-Union Exhibition dedicated to the 1500-th anniversary of Kyiv (Kiev).
- All-Union Exhibition of works by Soviet artists (Yerevan).
1983 - All-Union Exhibition of "Physical Culture and Sport in the Fine Arts (Moscow).
- All-Union exhibition "Kyiv Spring" (Kiev).
1984 - All-Union exhibition "Land and People" (Moscow).
1985 - All-Union exhibition "40 years of the Great Victory" (Moscow).
- International exhibition of artists-realists (Sofia, Bulgaria).
1986 - All-Union exhibition "We are building communism", dedicated to the XXVII Congress of the CPSU (Moscow).
- International exhibition "Masters of culture - for Peace" (Moscow).
1987 - All-Union exhibition "Land of Soviets", dedicated to the 70 th anniversary of the Great October Revolution (Moscow).
1996 - group exhibition (..., Germany).
1997 - group exhibition (..., France).

Since 1959 - almost all members of the Belarusian national exhibition at the decadal rates and exhibitions in the RSFSR, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, Ukraine.

The works displayed at the exhibitions of Soviet and Belarusian artists abroad: in England, Austria, Algeria, Angola, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, West Berlin, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Poland, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Sri Lanka, Yugoslavia, Japan .

BOOKS AND CATALOGS:

* Выстаўка твораў whale L. Shchamyaleva, prysvechanaya 50-h day Goju naradzhennya. Catalog. Minsk, 1973.
* Leonid D. Shchemelev. Colors of time / Sost. and author of the text BA KREPAK. Moscow: Soviet Artist, 1978. 5 sec., 14 liters. col.
* Krepak BA Leanid Шчамялеў. Мінск: "Belarus", 1981. 56 pp., Col. ill.
* Shchemelev LD Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR Leonid D. Shchemelev. Painting. Exhibition Catalog. Moscow: Soviet Artist, 1982. 1500 copies. 4 pp., 22 liters. col.
* Krepak BA Leanid Шчамялеў. Мінск: "Belarus", 1989. 152 pp., Col. ill. ( Album, large format ).
* Шчамялеў Leanid Дзмітрыевіч. Warehouse. B. Krepak. [Мінск:] "PryntTym", 1997. 44 p., col. ill.
* Leanid Шчамялеў. Sost. A. Prilipko. Minsk: "Helmon, 1998. 2000 copies. 126 pp., Col. ill. Text steam. rus., Belarusian., Eng. ( Album, large format ).
* Leanid Шчамялеў. Minsk, 2002. Warehouse. S. Shchamyaleva. 195 copies. 64.

He taught at the Minsk Art College (1959-1964 gg.), The Republican boarding school for music and fine arts (1966-1974 gg.), At the architectural department of the Belarusian State University (1975). In art exhibitions since 1958 Member of the Section of Painting Artists' Union of the BSSR (since 1964). Works in the field plot-theme paintings, genres of portrait, landscape, still life. Artworks Schemelev inherent expressiveness of the art form, which is achieved wide dynamic pulmonary, saturation and decorative richness of color, romantic image, the multifaceted psychological characteristics. A significant place is theme of the Great Patriotic War, it appears as a direct demonstration of military events, and indirectly - through a deep understanding and experience of the military past of today: "difficult years" (1965), "Reminiscence. May 9" (1965 ), "My Birth" (1967), "Guerrilla" (1972), "Veterans" (1972), "justified" (1974), "July 3" (1977), " The first day of the World "(1981)," The partisans of Vitebsk "(1984)," February 1942 " (1984), "blessed memory" (1984), "There is people's war" (1985), "Oath" (1985), "Nalibokskaya Forest" (1985), "Disturbing Summer 1941 g. " (1985) and others in scale, the magnitude of the individual scenes are underlined in "General Dovator" (1975), "People's poet of Belarus Ya Kupala" (1981), "Lesya Ukrainka" (1983) and etc. The complexity of lyric-epic structure distinguished series of works "Land of my Minsk region": "flax Ivenets" (1977), "threatened by war 22 June 1941", "Listovey", "Summer" (1978; State Prize BSSR, 1982) and others balanced composition, psychological depth and sincerity of feeling nature of the work of his contemporaries: the portraits of teachers (1969), artists Chépica N. (1970), G. Vashchenko (1980), " Violinist "(1973)," Sunday "(1974)," Svetlana "(1975)," Ministers Muses "(1975)," Young "(1975)," Daughters "(1976 g.), "Sisters" (1976), portrait of Danekinoy (1978), "Kate draws" (1985) and other colorful, expressive rhythm plastic embodiment, deep poetic feeling - feature landscapes of Belarus : "Autumn Appeal" (1975), "Viazynka" (1976), "Pines" (1977), "January in Minsk" (1977), "Source" (1978), " At the end of January "(1978)," Loshitsa "(1978)," Spring on the Dvina "(1979)," Motherland "(1981)," Winter in Rakov (1982), "Winter" (1983), the series "New field" (1979-1982.) "Corner of inspiration" (2006), "Winter in Rakov (2006)," Pond in Zdravnevo "(2006 ), etc. The bright saturated colors, washed understanding of human life through the tangible world is distinguished still life "Tulips" (1973), "Honey" (1974), "After the concert" (1975), "Flowers of the earth "(1978) and others to the historical past of the homeland Shchemelev drawn in paintings" C. Kalinowski (1975), "Arrest Savinkov in Minsk" (1977), "The Return. Gusovsky N. (1980 .), "Repin Zdravnevo" (1980) and others Shchemelev - one of the most striking and significant figures in modern Belarusian art. In the artist's creative assets 25 personal exhibitions in Belarus and abroad, including in Russia and Germany, his paintings have seen the audience more than thirty countries of the Old and New World, Africa, Asia, from Canada, Mexico, Algeria and ending with the Republic of Sri Lanka and Japan. Shchemelev - honorary citizen of Minsk. Since 2003, working in Minsk City Art Gallery works L. Schemelev (based on the collection - 60 paintings donated by the artist, Minsk). Works are in collections of the National Art Museum of Belarus, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in Minsk, the Belarusian Union of Artists, the Ministry of Culture of Russia, and in private collections in Belarus, Germany, Israel, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Canada, the Baltics, Russia, U.S., Turkey and Ukraine.