Lev Mitrofanovich Barkov (born 24.10 1928) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1972). He was born in Moscow. He graduated from Moscow University (1952). In 1952-67 he worked at the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy; from 1967 he has been head of a laboratory at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences and from 1973 professor at Novosibirsk University.
His work is in the field of nuclear physics, neutron physics and elementary-particle physics. He detected experimentally (1978) the non-conservation of parity in atomic transitions.