Shainskiy was sick with stomach cancer, suffered several operations.
Shainskiy was a Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1981).
Shainskiy graduated from the composer faculty of the Baku Conservatoire named after UAG. Gadzhibekova (1965, the class of People's Artist of the USSR K.Karayev).
Shainskiy had two citizen-ships - the Russian Federation and Israel.
Vladimir Shainskiy is the author of popular songs ("Do not cry, little girl", "Herbs, herbs", children's - "Song of the crocodile Gena," "Together cheerfully walk").