Yuri Borisovich Levitan[a] (Russian: Юрий Борисович Левитан; 2 October 1914 – 4 August 1983) was the primary Soviet radio announcer during and after World War II.

He announced on Radio Moscow all major international events in the 1940s–60s including the German attack on the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, the surrender of Germany on 9 May 1945, the death of Joseph Stalin on 5 March 1953, and the first manned spaceflight on 12 April 1961.

[1] Born in a Jewish family in Vladimir to a tailor and a housewife, Levitan traveled to Moscow in the early 1930s, hoping to become an actor, and was rejected because of his provincial accent.

Levitan made some 2000 radio announcements during the war; he recorded recreations of many of them in the 1950s, when he reproduced them in studio for archiving purposes.

His monuments were also erected at his grave in Moscow, and in Volgograd,[2] and streets were named after him in Almaty, Dnipro, Odesa, Orsk, Tver and Ufa.