This article deals with the papers by M. A. Leontovich on the subject of thermodynamics and statistical physics. Primary attention is given to the paper entitled ``The fundamental equations of the kinetic theory of gases from the standpoint of the theory of random processes'', which was published in 1935 in \emph{Zhurnal Eksperimentarnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki}, No.~5. This paper is one of the basic works in the modern statistical theory of nonequilibrium processes.

%0 Journal Article
%T Dissipative equations for many-particle distribution functions
%A Yu. L. Klimontovich
%I Physics-Uspekhi
%D 1983
%J Phys. Usp.
%V 26
%N 4
%P 366-372
%U https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1983/4/g/
%U https://doi.org/10.1070/PU1983v026n04ABEH004397