Yuri Levitansky

Yuri Levitansky
1995
Born(1922-01-22)22 January 1922
Died25 January 1996(1996-01-25) (aged 74)
Resting placeVagankovo Cemetery
Alma materMaxim Gorky Literature Institute
OccupationsPoet, translator
AwardsState Prize of the Russian Federation
Order of the Patriotic War
Order of the Red Star
Medal "For Battle Merit"
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

Yury Davidovich Levitansky (Russian: Ю́рий Дави́дович Левита́нский; January 22, 1922, Kozelets, Chernigov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR — January 25, 1996, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian- language poet and translator from the USSR, a master of lyrical parody of genres, and Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art in 1994.