# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/polina-barskova
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:48:35.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/polina-barskova"
name: "Polina Barskova"
slug: "polina-barskova"
description: "Polina Barskova is a Russian poet. She was born in Leningrad. Although her biological father was poet Evgeny Rein, she was raised by her adoptive father, scholar Yuri Barskov, and bears his surname. Her first book appeared when she was still a teenager. At the age of 20, she left Russia to pursue a PhD at University of California, Berkeley. She taught Russian literature at Hampshire College, and is now a professor at U.C. Berkeley."
tagline: "Soviet-Russian poet, prosaist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Polina_Barskova.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976-02-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.6
  momentum:             4.999999999999998
  historical:           5.089886666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polina_Barskova"
    title: "Polina Barskova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polina_Barskova"
    title: "Polina Barskova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "بولينا بارسكوفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Барскова, Полина Юрьевна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polina_Barskova"
    title: "Polina Barskova"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A1_%D4%B2%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%BD%D5%AF%D5%B8%D5%BE%D5%A1"
    title: "Պոլինա Բարսկովա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4078552"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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