# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/solomon-volkov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:21:46.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/solomon-volkov"
name: "Solomon Volkov"
slug: "solomon-volkov"
description: "Solomon Moiseyevich Volkov is a Russian journalist and musicologist. He is best known for Testimony, which was published in 1979 following his emigration from the Soviet Union in 1976. According to him, the book was the memoir of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to him by the composer."
tagline: "American musicologist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.195121951219512
  historical:           11.83186
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Solomon Volkov"
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    title: "Solomon Volkov"
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    title: "Solomon Volkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Moiseevi%C4%8D_Volkov"
    title: "Solomon Moiseevič Volkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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