# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anton-gubankov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:24.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anton-gubankov"
name: "Anton Gubankov"
slug: "anton-gubankov"
description: "Anton Nikolayevich Gubankov was a Russian journalist and civil servant. He worked as a television journalist until 2013. He served as the Director of the Department of Culture in the Russian Ministry of Defence from 2013 to 2016. In this role Gubankov popularised the term \"polite people\" referring to the unmarked Russian soldiers during the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. He died in the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash when he was on his route to Syria with 63 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble with its director Valery Khalilov and 27 others which killed all 92 passengers on board, including Anton."
tagline: "Russian journalist (1965–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anton_Gubankov.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1965-01-29"
deathDate: "2016-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             0.6552706552706553
  historical:           7.013464
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Gubankov"
    title: "Anton Gubankov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%88%DA%A4"
    title: "انتون جوبانكوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Gubankov"
    title: "Anton Gubankov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Gubankov"
    title: "Anton Gubankov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Goubankov"
    title: "Anton Goubankov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91"
    title: "אנטון גובנקוב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Губанков, Антон Николаевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Gubankov"
    title: "Anton Gubankov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4151256"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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