# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-levitan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:09:09.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-levitan"
name: "Yuri Levitan"
slug: "yuri-levitan"
description: "Yuri Borisovich Levitan was the primary Soviet radio announcer during and after World War II. He announced on Radio Moscow all major international events in the 1940s–60s including the German attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, the surrender of Germany on 9 May 1945, the death of Joseph Stalin on 5 March 1953, and the first manned spaceflight on 12 April 1961."
tagline: "Soviet radio announcer (1914–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Levitan_in_Victory_Day.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1914-09-19"
deathDate: "1983-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.81
  momentum:             15
  historical:           22.12329066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506162/"
    handle:    "nm0506162"
sources:
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    title: "Yuri Levitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يوري ليفيتان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Юрый Барысавіч Левітан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Юрий Левитан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jurij Borisovič Levitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Juri Borissowitsch Lewitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Γιούρι Λεβιτάν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Youri Levitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Iuri Levitán"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Յուրի Լևիտան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ユーリ・レヴィタン"
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    title: "Юрий Борисович Левитан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "유리 레비탄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ливитан, Юрий Борисович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Юрий Левитан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgius_Levitan"
    title: "Georgius Levitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Levitan"
    title: "Yuri Levitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Lewitan"
    title: "Jurij Lewitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Levitan"
    title: "Yuri Levitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iuri_Borisovici_Levitan"
    title: "Iuri Borisovici Levitan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/71469b1b-634e-463e-8c21-0e38b00f41c5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3037989"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q982056"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump