# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valentin-berezhkov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:45:32.496Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valentin-berezhkov"
name: "Valentin Berezhkov"
slug: "valentin-berezhkov"
description: "Valentin Mikhailovich Berezhkov was a Soviet diplomat, translator, interpreter, and journalist who served as the personal translator-referent to Joseph Stalin and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov during key World War II conferences, most notably at Tehran (1943), Yalta (1945), and Potsdam (1945). After the war, he transitioned to journalism, becoming deputy chief editor of The New Times, and later the founding editor of USA, Economics, Politics, Ideology. Berezhkov returned to diplomacy in the 1970's as the First Secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he moved to the United States, where he taught on Russian American affairs at institutions including Stanford University and Occidental College. In 1992, he went to work at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, serving there until his death several years later. He published several memoirs, including At Stalin's Side, and died in Claremont, California, in 1998."
tagline: "Russian diplomat and translator (1916-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Stalin_%26_Generals%2C_Tehran_Conference.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1916-07-02"
deathDate: "1998-11-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.91
  momentum:             3.402061855670103
  historical:           5.703386666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Bere%C5%BEkov"
    title: "Valentin Berežkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walentin_Michailowitsch_Bereschkow"
    title: "Walentin Michailowitsch Bereschkow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Berezhkov"
    title: "Valentin Berezhkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Бережков, Валентин Михайлович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Berejkov"
    title: "Valentin Berejkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walentin_Bierie%C5%BCkow"
    title: "Walentin Bierieżkow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4084311"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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