# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vitaly-shentalinsky
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:46:25.379Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vitaly-shentalinsky"
name: "Vitaly Shentalinsky"
slug: "vitaly-shentalinsky"
description: "Vitaly Alexandrovich Shentalinsky was a Russian writer and journalist. He became internationally known for his books on the fates of Russian writers during the Great Purge under the rule of Joseph Stalin."
tagline: "Russian writer and journalist (1939–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-10-07"
deathDate: "2018-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.1
  momentum:             15.73863636363636
  historical:           5.473470666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witali_Alexandrowitsch_Schentalinski"
    title: "Witali Alexandrowitsch Schentalinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "ڤيتالى شينتالينسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Xentalinski"
    title: "Vitali Xentalinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Шенталинский, Виталий Александрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Shentalinsky"
    title: "Vitaly Shentalinsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witalij_Szentalinski"
    title: "Witalij Szentalinski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7888511"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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