# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arkady-babchenko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:51:36.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arkady-babchenko"
name: "Arkady Babchenko"
slug: "arkady-babchenko"
description: "Arkady Arkadyevich Babchenko is a Russian print and television journalist. From 1995, Babchenko served in the communication corps in the North Caucasus while participating in the First Chechen War. He later volunteered for six months during the Second Chechen War. After leaving the army in 2000 he worked as a war correspondent for more than a decade. Since 2017 he has worked as a presenter for the Kyiv-based TV channel ATR. In 2006 he published the book One Soldier's War, about his experiences in Chechnya."
tagline: "Russian journalist"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1977-03-18"
deathDate: "2018-05-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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totalFollowers: 166000
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump