He worked in this capacity from 1965 to 1980 in a plant called Kalinin. In 198082. Leonid was employed as the head of a technical division for repairing refrigerators. In 1982. he was appointed as the chief engineer of a project which specifically worked on systems of automatic control. In February 1990. Leonids wife Galina. their two daughters and each of their mothers applied for exit visas to Israel. In April 1990. the Kosharovsky family received permission to leave the U.S.S.R. with the exception of Leonid. who instead received a refusal. The reason given for the refusal was access to secrecy based on a position he had left more than 10 years ago.