Levitsky N.A. (1911-1982), film director

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LEVITSKY Nikolay Alexeevich (1911-1982, Leningrad), documentary film director, People's Artist of the USSR in 1982. After graduating from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography in 1936, he worked as an associate director at Lenfilm Studio and Soviet Belarus Film Studio. A director at the Leningrad Studio of Popular Science Films from 1956, he produced 30 films on nature, art, and revolutionary history including Alexander Ulyanov of 1963, Bloody Sunday of 1964, and Weapon of Satire of 1966. Many of his films were devoted to Russian scientists and artists such as Great Denunciator of 1972 devoted to Leo Tolstoy, Serving My Fatherland of 1975 devoted to Member of Academy I. P. Pavlov, Evgeny Baratynsky of 1979, and Fedor Dostoevsky of 1980. St. Petersburg, Petrograd, and Leningrad appear in many of Levitsky's films. He was buried at Serafimovskoe Cemetery.

Reference: Николай Левицкий. Л., 1977.

V. A. Kuznetsova. Levitsky Nikolay Alexeevich
Pavlov Ivan Petrovich
Tolstoy Lev Nikolaevich, Count
Николай Левицкий. Л., 1977 Lenfilm, Film Studio
Lennauchfilm, film studio
Seraphimovskoe Cemetery