Yuri Levitansky
Yury Davidovich Levitansky (Russian: Ю́рий Дави́дович Левита́нский; January 22, 1922, Kozelets, Chernigov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR - January 25, 1996, Moscow, Russia) was a poet and translator, and a master of lyrical parody of genres. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art in 1994.[1]
Member of the Great Patriotic War. The first collection of poems was released in 1948 in Irkutsk.[2] In the years 1955-1957 Levitansky studying at the Higher literary courses at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. Since 1957, member of the Writers' Union.[3] In 1963 he published a collection of poems Earthly Heaven made famous author.[2]
Many Levitansky poems were set to music, sung and performed by popular bards. The songs on poems of Yuri Levitansky sound in movies Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears and Rytsarskiy roman.[4]
In 1993 he signed a Letter of Forty-Two.
In 1995, at the ceremony of the State Prize Levitansky he appealed to Russian President Boris Yeltsin to halt the First Chechen War.[5]