Yury Davidovich Levitansky (russian: Ю́рий Дави́дович Левита́нский; January 22, 1922,

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, Chernigov Oblast,

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— January 25, 1996,

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) was a Russian- language

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and translator from the

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, a master of lyrical parody of genres, and Laureate of the

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in the field of literature and art in 1994. Levitansky fought in the

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. Afterwards, his first collection of poems was released in 1948 in

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.Левитанский Ю. Д. на Library.ru
/ref> In the years 1955-1957 Levitansky studied in the Higher literary courses at

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. In 1957, he became a member of the Writers' Union.Словарь Новая Россия: мир литературы
In 1963 he published a collection of poems called ''Earthly Heaven'', which sprung him into fame as an author. Many of Levitansky's poems were set to music, sung and performed by popular

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s. Some of these songs are found in the movies ''

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'' and ''Chivalric Romance''. In 1993 he signed the Letter of Forty-Two. In 1995, at the ceremony of the aforementioned State Prize, Levitansky appealed to then Russian President

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

to halt the First Chechen War.Слово для любви и для молитвы
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