# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vladimir-vysotsky
# Generated: 2026-09-01T11:26:22.467Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vladimir-vysotsky"
name: "Vladimir Vysotsky"
slug: "vladimir-vysotsky"
description: "He sang what couldn't be said — gravelly-voiced, guitar in hand, passing tapes hand-to-hand across the Soviet Union because the state wouldn't touch him and the people wouldn't let go."
tagline: "Soviet singer-songwriter and actor (1938–1980)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "singer"
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birthDate: "1938-01-25"
deathDate: "1980-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           25.992132
  currentAttention:     26.66666666666667
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 129
totalFollowers: 572000
tags:
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  - name: "Poetry"
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  - name: "Literature"
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  - name: "Movies"
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  - name: "Theatre"
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  - name: "Singer-Songwriter"
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  - name: "Classical"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was born 25 January 1938 and died 25 July 1980, spending all forty-two years inside the USSR. He wrote songs in street slang laced with social and political commentary, performed them in a singing style no one else had, and became a stage and screen actor of real standing. The official Soviet cultural establishment wanted nothing to do with his work. The public made him a phenomenon anyway, circulating his recordings like contraband, packing his performances, memorizing every line. He shaped a generation of Russian musicians and actors, and the influence outlasted the system that tried to ignore him.