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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Levitan has received more than 144,663 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Yuri Levitan is the 305th most popular social activist (down from 300th in 2019), the 1,014th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,020th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Russian Social Activist.

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  • 140k

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  • 53.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Yuri Levitan ranks 305 out of 840Before him are Massoud Rajavi, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Ryu Gwansun, Unity Mitford, Abdallah ibn Yasin, and Johannes Kleiman. After him are Muhammad Zaidan, Zhang Guotao, Cut Nyak Dhien, Amelia Bloomer, Franca Viola, and Aruna Asaf Ali.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Yuri Levitan ranks 142Before him are George Tabori, Unity Mitford, Jerry Siegel, Dobri Dobrev, Akira Matsunaga, and Martin Ritt. After him are Anatole Abragam, Henri Langlois, Joe Shuster, Tito Okello, Albert Soboul, and Kenny Clarke. Among people deceased in 1983, Yuri Levitan ranks 103Before him are Juan López Fontana, Maurice Bishop, Antonin Magne, Ibrahim Abboud, Lina Radke, and Raymond Massey. After him are Shūji Terayama, Zhang Daqian, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Manuel Ferreira, Louise Weiss, and Johan Grøttumsbråten.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Levitan ranks 1,014 out of 3,761Before him are Vladimir Kramnik (1975), Ivan Tyulenev (1892), Andrei Shkuro (1887), Alexander Shelepin (1918), Anatoly Filipchenko (1928), and Anna Demidova (1878). After him are Panteleimon Ponomarenko (1902), Olga Rubtsova (1909), Andrei Bubnov (1883), Pyotr Lebedev (1866), Alexander Izvolsky (1856), and Söyembikä of Kazan (1516).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Yuri Levitan ranks 23Before him are Vera Figner (1852), Alexander Antonov (1889), Sergey Taboritsky (1897), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Pavel Pestel (1793), and Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911). After him are Natalya Estemirova (1958), Catherine Breshkovsky (1844), Anatoly Marchenko (1938), Peter Arshinov (1887), Zinaida Portnova (1926), and Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1790).