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    Yuri Borisovich Levitan (Russian: Юрий Борисович Левитан; 2 October, 1914 – 4 August, 1983) was the primary Soviet radio announcer during and after World...
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  • (born 1962), director Tina Levitan (1922–2014), American writer Yuliya Levitan (born 1973), American chess player Yuri Levitan (1914–1983), Soviet radio...
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  • Hermann Hoth Sergei Blinnikov – Alexander Poskrebyshev (uncredited) Yuri Levitan – Narrator Mira and Antonin Liehm, The Most Important Art, ISBN 0-520-03157-1...
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    1991 and, in 2013, by International Information Agency Russia Today. Yuri Levitan made the radio announcements on Radio Moscow (known for its "Wide is...
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  • protests were frequently broadcast on Soviet radio, "voiced by announcer Yuri Levitan in his solemn voice", which led to general awareness of the "final warnings"...
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    March 1953. His death was announced the next day on Radio Moscow by Yuri Levitan. Stalin's body was then taken to an unspecified location and an autopsy...
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  • 1932), conductor Olga Vysotskaya (1906—2000), All-Union Radio announcer Yuri Levitan (1914—1983), All-Union Radio announcer Metaksia Simonyan (1926—1987)...
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    public radio announcements to the Soviet people, Vyacheslav Molotov and Yuri Levitan both said the invasion occurred "without presenting any claims to the...
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    (1916–1974) 1980s Filipp Golikov (1900–1980) Nikolai Podgorny (1903–1983) Yuri Levitan (1914–1983) Nikolai Tomsky (1900–1984) Pavel Batov (1897–1985) Kirill...
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  • The Age of Pioneers (category Films scored by Yuri Poteyenko)
    Gennady Smirnov as Konstantin Feoktistov (cosmonaut) Avangard Leontiev as Yuri Levitan (radio announcer) Kirill Polukhin as unit commander Valery Grishko as...
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    Vostok 1 (category Yuri Gagarin)
    Gagarin's flight was announced while Gagarin was still in orbit, by Yuri Levitan, the leading Soviet radio personality since the 1930s. Although news...
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    Mikhail Lazarev, admiral Yuri Levitan, radio announcer Anna Loginova, fashion model Alexey Prokurorov, cross-country skier Yuri Ryazanov, gymnast Vasily Shulgin...
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  • theater and film director Savely Kramarov, actor Mila Kunis, actress Yuri Levitan, radio announcer Anatole Litvak, director Solomon Mikhoels, actor and...
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    1961 at 06:00 UTC aboard the Vostok 2 space capsule. Radio personality Yuri Levitan interrupted Radio Moscow programming with an announcement of the flight...
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    Rüütel, ex-president of Estonia Nikolay Semyonov, physicist and chemist Yuri Levitan, Soviet radio announcer Lyudmila Shevtsova – athlete, Olympic champion...
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    signal of Radio Moscow and the announcement by the Soviet radio voice Yuri Levitan, famous for his announcements during the Second World War. The address...
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  • On 9 May (Moscow Time) the surrender is announced on Radio Moscow by Yuri Levitan. 28 May – U.S.-born Irish-raised William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is captured...
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  • August 28 – Paul, Finnish Orthodox archbishop (d. 1988) 2 October - Yuri Levitan, radio announcer January 3 – Nadezhda Rykalova, actress (born 1824) 8...
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    Galushkin and his fighters operated. Nikolai Ivanovich said, with announcer Yuri Levitan, during a personal meeting with him years after the end of the war, admitted...
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  • independence. She interviewed many Soviet figures and even met with Yuri Levitan himself. For many years, she represented Uzbek art and literature in...
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  • one of history's most influential broadcast personalities. August 4 - Yuri Levitan, 68, Soviet Russian radio announcer. Radio broadcasting Cox, Jim (2008)...
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  • stations by the FCC. April 12: 07:00 UTC – Soviet announcer Yuri Levitan broadcasts news of Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 mission, the first human spaceflight,...
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    In 1968, he became director of the All-Union Radio, and together with Yuri Levitan, he narrated festive demonstrations dedicated to International Workers'...
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    Russia Sunstroke (2014) as prestidigitator The Age of Pioneers (2017) as Yuri Levitan Van Goghs (2018) as Veniamin Распоряжение Президента Российской Федерации...
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  • opera singer Yevgeny Leonov (1926–1994), actor Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), painter Yuri Levitan (1914–1983), radio announcer Maxim Litvinov (1876–1951)...
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  • protagonist of the novel, Semion Levitan, likes to imitate the voice of the famous World War II era radio host Yuri Levitan in Russia. He became an English...
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  • invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany is reported on Radio Moscow by Yuri Levitan (who in the autumn is evacuated to Sverdlovsk). 26 June – The radio transmission...
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    Russian landscape painter. For many years, she was the mistress of Isaac Levitan and served as the inspiration for the lead character in a short story by...
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  • 2004) 22 July – Charles Régnier, German actor (died 2001) 2 October – Yuri Levitan, Russian radio announcer (died 1983) 27 October – Dylan Thomas, Welsh...
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  • (Westwind, France, 2005). This is the Soviet Information Bureau . . . (Yuri Levitan's broadcast, February 1943, after the end of the Battle of Stalingrad)...
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