A photo from open sources On the 70th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany during Vladimir opened a unique monument dedicated to the main announcer of the Soviet Union Yuri Levitan.
The sculpture is a memorial stone with a profile Levitan and his biographical data, as well as a standing boy with grandfather who listen to a street speaker, because it broadcasts from it familiar and dear voice about the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic war. The most interesting thing is that of stone the reproducer of those distant war years is actually heard Levitan’s unique record is his “Victory Voice”. That is, in Vladimir’s public square is not just a monument, but interactive sculptural composition, which immediately fell on taste to the residents of the regional center, who immediately christened it “the voice of Levintan.”
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Yuri Levitan was born in 1914 in Vladimir and since childhood wanted become an artist. However, despite his excellent external data, in the theater school in Moscow he was not accepted because of Vladimir gossip with an accent of peril. Since the young man did not want to give up, then accidentally gets into the Radio Committee of the capital, where he intensively begins work on your pronunciation. By chance when he read once at night a note from the newspaper Pravda, Stalin heard it and right there ordered that his report be read on that voice the upcoming XVII Party Congress.
So Yuri Levitan becomes the leading speaker of Soviet radio. Well, the Great Patriotic War brought him real glory, when he read the bulletins of the Information Bureau from the front, and the whole Soviet people with bated breath listened to this unique voice.
The Vladimir Museum stores things of Yuri Levitan, for example, his work book, microphone and even glasses, as well as newspaper number “Red Star” of May 9, 1945 with some announcer notes, when he was preparing to read out the most joyful message that day for the whole Soviet people. Yuri Levitan worked as an announcer on radio for nearly half a century, airing over sixty thousand various messages and broadcasts. He died on the fourth of August 1983 years, however, the voice of Levitan still lives in the hearts of Soviet people.
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