# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boris-gusman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:24:14.300Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boris-gusman"
name: "Boris Gusman"
slug: "boris-gusman"
description: "Boris Yevseyevich Gusman was a Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for Pravda. As deputy director for the Bolshoi Theatre and later director of the Soviet Radio Committee Arts Division, Gusman played an important role in promoting Sergei Prokofiev's music in the USSR and internationally. Gusman was arrested during the Great Purges of the late 1930s, and died in a labor camp in 1944. His son Israel Borisovich Gusman would later become a prominent musical conductor."
tagline: "Soviet artist, critic, Pravda writer and friend of Prokofiev killed in the purges."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Boris_Gusman.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892-12-16"
deathDate: "1944-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.02
  momentum:             0.09615384615384616
  historical:           6.137113333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0348896/"
    handle:    "nm0348896"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%95%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гусман, Борис Евсеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "بوريس جوسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "বরিস গুসম্যান"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Jewsejewitsch_Gusman"
    title: "Boris Jewsejewitsch Gusman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Gusman"
    title: "Boris Gusman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Gusman"
    title: "Boris Gusman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4152857"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2362136"
    title: "Boris Gusman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump