Yuri Levitan

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Soviet radio announcer (1914-1983)

JournalistsLived 1914 to 1983 · aged 68

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Languages27

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Yuri Borisovich Levitan was the primary Soviet radio announcer during and after World War II.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 4

Levitan reading out Germany's unconditional surrender, May 9, 1945

Yuri Levitan's monument at Novodevichy Cemetery.

Levitan on a 2016 stamp of Russia

Awards 16

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Badge of Honour

People's Artist of the USSR

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

Medal "Veteran of Labour"

Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

People's Artist of the RSFSR

Merited Artist of the RSFSR

Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Journalists born in the 1910s 6

Claudia Jones56.5

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin55.9

Samuel Reshevsky54.4 Willem Sassen51.5

Kukrit Pramoj51.4

Ferenc Csik51.4

About this person

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.