Life path of engineer-lieutenant colonel Vasily Romanovich Lebedinsky

This is an archaeographic publication of an autobiography of engineer-lieutenant colonel Vasily Romanovich Lebedinsky, deposited in the State Archive of the Volgograd Oblast. Lebedinsky held leadership positions in several defense enterprises of the USSR in the 1920s–1950s. The document is of interest as a source that allows reconstructing his life journey, and can also be used in further research on the history of Russian military-industrial complex and formation of a professional community of engineers who worked at defense enterprises.