16 Facts About Vladimir Menshov

Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director.

Vladimir Menshov was noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films.

Vladimir Menshov's father, Valentin Mikhailovich Menshov, was a sailor and later an NKVD officer; his mother Antonina Aleksandrovna Menshova was a housewife.

From 1970 to 1976, Vladimir Menshov worked under contracts at the film studios Mosfilm, Lenfilm and the Odessa Film Studio.

Vladimir Menshov made a short thesis film On the Question of the Dialectic of the Perception of Art, or Lost Dreams, wrote the stage version of the novel Mess-Mend by Marietta Shaginyan, which was staged at the Leningrad Youth Theater, and wrote the script I'm Serving on the Border at the request of Lenfilm.

The picture received the main prize at the Molodist-71 Kiev Film Festival Vladimir Menshov starred in a 1972 film by Alexei Sakharov called A Man in His Place.

In 1973 Vladimir Menshov was awarded the first prize for the best performance at the VI All-Union Film Festival in Almaty.

In 2004, Vladimir Menshov was the host of the Channel One show Last Hero.

Vladimir Menshov was the general director and art director of "Film Studio Genre", which is a subsidiary of Mosfilm.

Vladimir Menshov expressed support for the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and was blacklisted in Ukraine in 2015 as a result.

At the elections to the State Duma in 1995, Vladimir Menshov was included in the federal list Trade Unions, Industrialists of Russia, Labor Union.

Vladimir Menshov ran for the post of vice-governor of the Moscow region together with Anatoly Dolgolaptev.

However, in the 2016 legislative election, Vladimir Menshov became a trusted representative of United Russia.

However, in 2016, Vladimir Menshov claimed that he always voted for the communists and positively assessed the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Menshov planned to run for the State Duma in the 2021 legislative election from the A Just Russia party on its federal party list.

Vladimir Menshov died at age 81, as a consequence of COVID-19.