# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-shelepin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:10:50.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-shelepin"
name: "Alexander Shelepin"
slug: "alexander-shelepin"
description: "Alexander Nikolayevich Shelepin was a Soviet politician and intelligence officer. A long-time member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Shelepin served as a First Deputy Premier, a full member of the Politburo and as the chairman of the KGB from December 1958 to November 1961. Even after ostensibly leaving the KGB, he continued to hold considerable influence over the agency well until 1967 through his protégé, Vladimir Semichastny, who succeeded him as KGB Chairman."
tagline: "Soviet politician, KGB chairman (1918-1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1959_Press_Photo_Shelepin_Named_Chairman_of_the_Committee_of_State_Party_Control.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1918-08-18"
deathDate: "1994-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.21709066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Alexander Nikolajewitsch Schelepin"
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    title: "Alexander Shelepin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleks%C3%A1ndr_Shelepin"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aleksandr Szelepin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shelepin"
    title: "Alexander Shelepin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Aleksandr Nikolajeviç Shelepin"
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    title: "Шелєпін Олександр Миколайович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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