Leonid Perfetskyi (February 23, 1901, Ladyzhinka village, Cherkasy region - October 25, 1977, Montreal, Canada) was a centurion of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, an artist, a graphic artist.
Leonid Perfetskyi was born on February 23, 1901 in the village of Ladyzhynka, Uman district, Kyiv province. He studied at a secondary school in Oryol, at universities in Moscow and Kazan, later at the ensign school in Peterhof near Petrograd. Took an active part in the Liberation Struggles of 1917 — 1920. Went into exile with the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic and entered the Krakow Academy of Arts. He studied painting in Lviv, at Oleksa Novakivskyi's art school.
In 1925, he moved to Paris, where he studied in the workshop of artist Andre Lot. In 1941, he was taken to Germany as an agricultural worker. In 1942, "Ukrainian Publishing House" invited the artist to Lviv, to the position of illustrator of the monthly publication "Our Days", in which he combined work with teaching drawing at the Ukrainian Art School. During his stay in Lviv, Leonid lived in the family of his cousin Yevhen Perfetskyi. In 1944, he joined the Halychyna division as a military correspondent artist. In 1945, he ended up in a prisoner of war camp in Salzburg. In 1954 he came to Canada and settled in Montreal. He lived here at the Oratory of St. Joseph until the last years of his life, when he moved to the Ukrainian Home for the Elderly. In 1962, Bohdan Botsyurkov organized an exhibition of his works in Edmonton on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Ukrainian National Association. Leonid Perfetsky died on October 25, 1977, and was buried at the Mont-Royal cemetery in Montreal.