Vladimir Petrovich Zamansky (; born 6 February 1926) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989).
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. 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 Belorussian 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 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 1958âÂÂ1966, 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.
On 6 February 2026, he turned 100.