Voice of Victory Yuri Levitan. Bashny.Net

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In the same place, where the famous Battle of Kursk, but August 4, 1983, Yuri Levitan was driving in the car and in a hurry for a meeting. It was organized a celebration to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Orel and Belgorod. All day Rumer heart ached, and friends offered to refuse to participate. But he could not let people down. Extremely hot in August 1983 was merciless. Levitan have had a heart attack, and doctors at the local hospital has been able to do nothing. Thus died the great announcer Yuri Levitan of the XX century.



Speaker number 1 of the Soviet Union was famous for its rare timbre and expressive voice. Dar, who made his master's most famous announcer of peace, has repeatedly been the subject of envy and persecution. Especially I hated Yuri Levitan Hitler, believing his enemy number one, and only then on his list was Stalin. Nazi Germany was even offered a premium of 250 thousand marks per head speaker.
People said then that his voice speaks of God. Each of his eagerly awaited speech at radio. He was the voice of the Great Victory and he instilled in the minds of listeners confidence in the future. One said that the voice of Rumer's worth a whole division, and they were right - it inspires hope. He even talked about the defeat as if it were a simple misunderstanding, but the war is sure to be won. Thanks to him, people are not afraid of the enemy and bravely repulsed even when he was objectively stronger. Today we offer to commemorate Rumer Levitan, and recall some of the most interesting facts about him.
1. Yuri Levitan childhood was endowed with his expressive voice, she has been dubbed the pipe. Moms who could not dozvatsya spree children often asked George to call them.
2. Fame and recognition came, literally, in one day. At night he read over the radio from a newspaper article, for the transfer to the regions. It was during this time he worked in his office, Stalin. Hearing expressive voice Levitan, he immediately telephoned the chairman of the Radio Committee and said that his report should be read tomorrow newscaster who has just passed the newspaper articles. So 19-year-old man has become the most popular man of the USSR.
3. Despite the rapid recognition of his talent, Yuri continued to work hard on his speech. Get rid of the "Ocana", working on diction, sometimes even read the texts, standing on his head.
4. To secure the best voice of the country during the war, it was a lot of security measures taken. Spreading false rumors about the appearance of Levitan, it has been put to him protection, and he is always up to the station was getting different roads. 5. Precautions once played against Rumer. When he tried to get on the radio to report the victory, he did not miss the crowd. They said that now would be a message Levitan, so let it does not interfere ... I had to flee to the other radio receiving station.
6. After the divorce from his wife in 1949. Levitan was living with her daughter and mother-in which he adored. In-law, although the former, it was nicer than anyone in the world, and she gladly daily cooked his favorite vinaigrette.



7. Yuri Levitan was the first of the speakers who was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.

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