- Father, with Vera Alentova, of Yuliya Menshova
- In 2011 as the chair of the Russian Academy Award committee he refused to co-sign the decision to nominate Nikita Mikhalkov's film Burnt by the Sun 2: The Citadel as the Russian submission for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
- In 2004, Menshov was the host of the Channel One show Last Hero.
- In 1973 Menshov was awarded the first prize for the best performance at the VI All-Union Film Festival in Almaty.
- Menshov's directorial debut took place in 1976, it was the film "Practical Joke". Menshov's second picture, Moscow "Does Not Believe in Tears" became one of Russia's box-office record holders, was awarded the State Prize of the USSR, and then the Oscar (1981) as the Best Foreign Language Film.
- He was noted for depicting the Russian everyman and working class life in his films.
- From 1970 to 1976, Vladimir Menshov worked under contracts at the film studios Mosfilm, Lenfilm and the Odessa Film Studio.
- Vladimir Menshov was the general director and art director of "Film Studio Genre", which is a subsidiary of Mosfilm.
- As a teenager Menshov worked as a machinist student at a factory, at a mine in Vorkuta, as a sailor on a diving boat in Baku, and also as an understudying actor at the Astrakhan Drama Theater.
- He starred in the title role in the thesis work of his classmate Alexander Pavlovsky Happy Kukushkin. The film was shot at the Odessa Film Studio. Vladimir Menshov also was a co-author of the script. The picture received the main prize at the Molodist-71 Kiev Film Festival.
- He expressed support for the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and was blacklisted in Ukraine in 2015 as a result.
- In 1965 he graduated from the acting department.
- 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.
- In 1970 he graduated from the VGIK postgraduate course in the department of feature film direction (Mikhail Romm's workshop).
- In 1961 he entered the acting department of the Moscow Art Theatre School. During the second year he married actress Vera Alentova who was also studying at the same theatre school.
- He 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.
- Menshov was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director.
- His father, Valentin Mikhailovich Menshov, was a sailor and later an NKVD officer.
- After graduating, he worked for two years as actor and assistant director at the Stavropol Regional Drama Theater.
- In 1984, Menchov directed the film "Love and Pigeons" based on the play of Vladimir Gurkin. Vladimir Menshov also directed the following films: What a Mess! (1995), The Envy of Gods (2000), and The Great Waltz. The Great Waltz was not finished.
- He was winner of the State Prizes of the RSFSR (1978, for the film 'Rally') and the USSR (1981, for the film "Moscow Does not Believe in Tears").
- He was awarded with The "For Services to Moscow" badge on 30 July 2009.
- He received "The Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree" (2017).
- Vladimir Menshov was "Honored Artist of the RSFSR" in 1984.
- Menshov also directed the hugely popular 1984 comedy Love and Pigeons, which remains one of the most watched movies on Russian television ever.
- In recent years, Menshov was the general director and art director of "Film Studio Genre," a subsidiary of Mosfilm.
- The first fame for Vladimir Menshov as an actor was brought by the role in Alexei Sakharov's drama "A Man in His Place". In total, he played about 120 roles.
- He received The Golden Eagle Award as Best Supporting Actor in "Legend No. 17" in 2014.
- Menshov was also well-known as an actor. He is credited in over 100 films, most notably "How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor" (1976), "Where is the Nophelet?" (1988), "Night Watch" (2004), "Day Watch" (2006) and "Legend r. 17" (2013).
- On September 30, 2022, a tombstone was erected on the grave of the actor and director at the Novodevichy Cemetery .
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