SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Yuri Levitan

1914 - 1983

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Levitan is the 298th most popular social activist (up from 306th in 2019), the 912th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,014th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Russian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Yuri Levitan ranks 298 out of 840. Before him are Gustave Moynier, Zhang Guotao, Mary Dyer, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Hector Hodler, and Cassivellaunus. After him are Efua Dorkenoo, Naziha al-Dulaimi, Harilal Gandhi, Catherine Breshkovsky, Lucio Urtubia, and Louise Bryant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Yuri Levitan ranks 147. Before him are Felice Borel, Andrzej Panufnik, Anatole Abragam, Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, Gino Colaussi, and Michael Grant. After him are Paul Tortelier, Noor Inayat Khan, Frances Oldham Kelsey, Patrick O'Brian, Arno Schmidt, and Jens Otto Krag. Among people deceased in 1983, Yuri Levitan ranks 98. Before him are Juan López Fontana, Charlie Rivel, Florence Owens Thompson, Johan Grøttumsbråten, Grigori Aleksandrov, and Jerzy Andrzejewski. After him are Fritz Machlup, Anthony Blunt, Shūji Terayama, John Williams, Vladimir Bakarić, and Romain Maes.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Levitan ranks 912 out of 3,761. Before him are Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Eugene Botkin (1865), Sergei Kruglov (1907), Andrei Kirilenko (1906), Vladimir Smirnov (1887), and Mikhail Romm (1901). After him are Dmitry Peskov (1967), Ivan Sidorenko (1919), Anatoly Filipchenko (1928), Konstantin of Rostov (1185), Noor Inayat Khan (1914), and Catherine Breshkovsky (1844).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Yuri Levitan ranks 20. Before him are Dmitry Muratov (1961), Sophia Perovskaya (1853), Sergey Taboritsky (1897), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Zinaida Portnova (1926), and Vera Figner (1852). After him are Catherine Breshkovsky (1844), Natalya Estemirova (1958), Pavel Pestel (1793), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Alexander Antonov (1889), and Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911).

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