# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrei-durnovtsev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:02:00.140Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrei-durnovtsev"
name: "Andrei Durnovtsev"
slug: "andrei-durnovtsev"
description: "Andrei Yegorovich Durnovtsev was a Soviet lieutenant colonel who was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in 1923, in the village of Upper Kuryaty, part of the Karatuzsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, he was a pilot of the Soviet Air Force. In July 1942, Andrei was drafted into the Red Army. One year later, he would graduate from the Irkutsk Higher Military Aviation Engineering School and from the Engels Military Aviation School in 1948. He was appointed Lead nuclear weapons test pilot, in charge of dropping the Tsar Bomba as part of the Nuclear weapons testing program of the Soviet Union."
tagline: "Soviet Air Force officer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Andrey_Yegorovich_Durnovtsev.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1923-01-14"
deathDate: "1976-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.08
  momentum:             7.751937984496122
  historical:           10.13549866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Дурновцев, Андрей Егорович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اندرى دورنوڤتسيڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Андрей Дурновцев"
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    title: "আন্দ্রেই দুরনোভটসেভ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дурновцев Андрей Егорович"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Durnovtsev"
    title: "Andrei Durnovtsev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9i_Durn%C3%B3vtsev"
    title: "Andréi Durnóvtsev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Durnovtsev"
    title: "Andrei Durnovtsev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre%C3%AF_Dournovtsev"
    title: "Andreï Dournovtsev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Durnovtsev"
    title: "Andrei Durnovtsev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Egorovi%C4%8D_Durnovcev"
    title: "Andrej Egorovič Durnovcev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriej_Durnowcew"
    title: "Andriej Durnowcew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4755776"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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