# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-nikolaevich-yakovlev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:37:18.582Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-nikolaevich-yakovlev"
name: "Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev"
slug: "alexander-nikolaevich-yakovlev"
description: "Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian. A member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union throughout the 1980s, he was termed the \"godfather of glasnost\", and was the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programme of glasnost and perestroika."
tagline: "Soviet diplomat (1923-2005)"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1923-12-02"
deathDate: "2005-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump