Vladimir Zamansky

Vladimir Petrovich Zamansky (Владимир Петрович Заманский; born 6 February 1926) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989).

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 Russian Army and volunteered to go to the front. In the winter of 1942 he became a student of the Tashkent Polytechnic, Communications, and in 1943 he was drafted into the Red Army. He fought from May 1944, and in one occasion saved his commander from their burning M10 Wolverine. In June 1944 he served as a radio operator in 1223th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 3rd Belarusian Front during a breakthrough near Orsha. As part of the regiment with a short break due to injury he served until the end of the war. After the war, as part of a military unit p / n 74256 in the Northern Group of Forces (Poland) he continued to serve in the Soviet Army.

In 1950, for participating in the beating of a platoon commander he was sentenced by the Military Tribunal to nine years imprisonment under article 193-B of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR. Among other prisoners he worked on construction sites in Kharkov, Moscow University building. For high-altitude life-threatening operation his prison term was reduced. He was released in 1954. After the amnesty, 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 1972–1980 years, he was a theatre-studio movie actor, and, since 1992 he was at the theater Yermolova.

He is married to actress Natalia Klimova (The Snow Queen).

In 1998, Vladimir Zamansky retired and he and his wife settled in Murom, where they currently live.

Selected filmography

 * 1960 — Lullaby as Andrey Petryanu
 * 1961 — The Steamroller and the Violin as road worker Sergei
 * 1962 — In the Seven Winds as Vladimir Vasiliev, the company commander
 * 1969 — The Death of Wazir Mukhtar as Maltsev, secretary of Griboyedov
 * 1970 — Liberation as Pavel Batov
 * 1970 — The Flight as Baev
 * 1971 — Trial on the Road as Alexander Lazarev
 * 1972 — Solaris as Kris Kelvin (voice, role played by Donatas Banionis)
 * 1972 — At the Сorner of Arbat Street Bubulinas as Vlad
 * 1974 — Departure Delayed as Sergey Bakchenin
 * 1976 — The Life and Death of Ferdinand Luce as Ferdinand Luce, director (voice)
 * 1977 — Eternal Call as Fyodor Nechayev
 * 1977 — Untypical Story as military commissar
 * 1977 — In the Zone of Special Attention as colonel
 * 1979 —  The Gypsy as Privalov
 * 1979 — Allegro Con Brio as Ivankov
 * 1979 — Stalker as Professor's telephone interlocutor
 * 1980 — The Melody in Two Voices as Nikolai Pavlovich
 * 1980 — Do Not Shoot at White Swans as Mikhail Matveyevich, tourist
 * 1983 — The Shore as Zykin
 * 1987 — Mournful Unconcern as Mazzini
 * 1987 — Tomorrow Was the War as Lyubertsy
 * 1988 — Days of Eclipse as Snegovoy
 * 1991 — 100 Days Before the Command as The Unknown Man
 * 1997 — The Botanical Garden as Pyotr Nikolayevich

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)
 * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989)
 * Order of Honour (2009)
 * Order of Alexander Nevsky (2021)
 * Medal of Zhukov