# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vladimir-menshov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:27:09.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vladimir-menshov"
name: "Vladimir Menshov"
slug: "vladimir-menshov"
description: "Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. He was noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films. Although Menshov mostly worked as an actor, he is better known for the films he directed, especially for the 1979 melodrama Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Actress Vera Alentova, who starred in the film, is the mother of Vladimir Menshov's daughter Yuliya Menshova."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian film director and actor (1939–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%BE%D0%B2_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-09-17"
deathDate: "2021-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.585916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "https://ВЛАДИМИРМЕНЬШОВ.РФ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump