# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasily-shukshin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:00:31.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasily-shukshin"
name: "Vasily Shukshin"
slug: "vasily-shukshin"
description: "Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was a Soviet and Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altai region who specialized in rural themes. A prominent member of the Village Prose movement, he began writing short stories in his early teenage years and later transitioned to acting by his late 20s."
tagline: "Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film director (1929-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD_(1972).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-07-25"
deathDate: "1974-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.252064
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161067/"
    handle:    "nm0161067"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.shukshin.ru"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فاسيلي مكاروفيتش شوكشين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шукшин Василий Макарович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vasily Shukshin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vasili Shukshín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vassili Šukšin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vassili Choukchine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "וסילי שוקשין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Վասիլի Շուկշին"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wassili_Makarowitsch_Schukschin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://hu.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vaszilij_Makarovics_Suksin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump