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.

[2] In the years 1955-1957 Levitansky studied in the Higher literary courses at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.

[3] In 1963 he published a collection of poems called Earthly Heaven, which sprung him into fame as an author.

[2] Many of Levitansky's poems were set to music, sung and performed by popular bards.

In 1995, at the ceremony of the aforementioned State Prize, Levitansky appealed to then Russian President Boris Yeltsin to halt the First Chechen War.