Vladimir Konstantinovich Lebedinsky (20.07.1868-02.07.1937) was a Soviet physicist and a Doctor of Technical Sciences. He was born in Petrozavodsk. He graduated from St Petersburg University (1891) and taught at a number of educational institutions in St Petersburg. In 1919 — 25 he worked at the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory and at Nizhny Novgorod University, in 1926 — 30 at the Leningrad Medical Institute and from 1930 at the Leningrad Institute of Railway Transport Engineers.
His research concerned electrophysics, magnetism, electrical and radio engineering and the history of physics. He studied electromagnetic oscillations, the spark discharge, the properties of the electric arc and the resonance of coupled and uncoupled systems. He was an active propagator and populariser of scientific knowledge and the founder and editor of a number of journals.