Vera Valentinovna Alentova (Russian: Вера Валентиновна Алентова; 21 February 1942 – 25 December 2025) was a Soviet and Russian actress known for her leading role in Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980).
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Early life and career
Vera Alentova was born on 21 February 1942 in the town of Kotlas in the Arkhangelsk Oblast. Her parents were the actors Valentin Mikhailovich Bykov and Irina Nikolaevna Alentova. She was named in honor of her maternal grandmother, who died at the age of 28. The actress's grandfather graduated from Tomsk State University and worked as a doctor, her grandmother graduated from Bestuzhev's courses. Her father died when she was four years old, after which her mother took her to Ukraine.
She came to Moscow in 1961, where she entered the Moscow Art Theater School in a course of Vasily Petrovich Markov's. During the second course, Alentova married Vladimir Menshov who was also studying acting at the school. She finished her studies in 1965, after which she became an actress of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. In the same year, she debuted in cinema with the film Flying Days.
Alentova appeared in a leading role as Nastya in the 1975 miniseries Such a Short Long Life about the life of ordinary Soviet families.
