Vladimir Zamanskiy

Vladimir Petrovich Zamansky (; born 6 February 1926) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1989, the highest honorary title awarded to performing artists in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Biography As a boy, Zamansky grew up without a father, and in 1941, when the Germans entered Kremenchuk, he was left without a mother. Deceiving the commission and adding to his age, he joined the Red Army and volunteered to go to the front. Among other prisoners he worked on construction sites in Kharkiv, and on the Main building of Moscow State University. For high-altitude life-threatening operation his prison term was reduced. He was released in 1954. After the amnesty, for applied for admission to theater school.

In 1958, he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (course Gerasimov). From 1958–1966, he was an actor in the Moscow theater Sovremennik Theatre. From 1972 until 1980, he was a theatre-studio movie actor, and, since 1992 he was at the theater Yermolova.

He married actress Natalya Klimova (The Snow Queen) in 1962. In 1998, he retired, and together with her settled in Murom, where they lived together until her death in 2026.

Filmography

Awards and honors

Medal "For Courage" (1945) Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974) Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1985) USSR State Prize (1988) – for the film Trial on the Road People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989) Order of Honour (2009) Order of Alexander Nevsky (2021) Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, 3rd class (2021) Order of Holy Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st class (2026) Medal of Zhukov