# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-korzhakov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:09:28.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-korzhakov"
name: "Alexander Korzhakov"
slug: "alexander-korzhakov"
description: "Alexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov is a Russian former KGB general who served as Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard, confidant, and adviser for eleven years. He was the head of the Presidential Security Service (PSB) from 1991 to 1996, State Duma deputy from 1997 to 2011, and retired Lieutenant-general. Korzhakov had been Yeltsin's bodyguard since 1985, and on 19 August 1991, he stood next to his boss on top of a tank during Yeltsin's historic speech."
tagline: "Russian high level KGB official"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Korzhakov_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1950-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.22
  momentum:             0.2365439093484419
  historical:           9.660172000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kor%C5%BEakov"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%87_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%DA%A4"
    title: "اليكساندريه كورزهاكوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wassiljewitsch_Korschakow"
    title: "Alexander Wassiljewitsch Korschakow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Korzhakov"
    title: "Alexander Korzhakov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kor%C5%BEakov"
    title: "Aleksandr Koržakov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Korjakov"
    title: "Alexandre Korjakov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kor%C5%BEakov"
    title: "Aleksandr Koržakov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B3%E3%83%95"
    title: "アレクサンドル・コルジャコフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Коржаков, Александр Васильевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Коржаков Олександр Васильович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kor%C4%B5akov"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1970002"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump