ACTOR

Vladimir Menshov

1939 - 2021

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Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (Russian: Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в; 17 September 1939 – 5 July 2021) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Menshov has received more than 229,248 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Vladimir Menshov is the 1,703rd most popular actor (down from 1,401st in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Actor.

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  • 55.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vladimir Menshov ranks 1,703 out of 13,578Before him are Bernard Farcy, Lea Thompson, Tate Donovan, Mario Brega, Ralph Macchio, and Sofiko Chiaureli. After him are Jason Miller, Choi Min-sik, Vic Morrow, Aleksey Batalov, James Cosmo, and Mirtha Legrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Vladimir Menshov ranks 154Before him are Leo Brouwer, Ariane Mnouchkine, John Howard, Bertrand Blier, Janusz Gajos, and Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark. After him are Jason Miller, Ali Farka Touré, Ignacio Zoco, Elvīra Ozoliņa, Frank Vincent, and Donald Adamson. Among people deceased in 2021, Vladimir Menshov ranks 161Before him are El Risitas, Elgin Baylor, Matthew Festing, Ed Asner, Lucía Hiriart, and Dani Karavan. After him are Horst Eckel, Rodney Alcala, Jaan Kaplinski, Ronald Inglehart, Jozef Vengloš, and Bob Dole.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Vladimir Menshov ranks 45 out of 232Before him are Zeynalabdin Taghiyev (1838), Ziba Ganiyeva (1923), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), Mahsati (1089), Fikret Amirov (1922), and Musa Manarov (1951). After him are Hazi Aslanov (1910), Shovkat Alakbarova (1922), Samad bey Mehmandarov (1855), Kerim Kerimov (1917), Anatoliy Banishevskiy (1946), and Vagif Mustafazadeh (1940).

Among ACTORS In Azerbaijan

Among actors born in Azerbaijan, Vladimir Menshov ranks 1After him are Rasim Balayev (1948), Huseyn Arablinski (1881), Nesrin Cavadzade (1982), and Afag Bashirgyzy (1955).