# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/augusts-voss
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:14:21.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/augusts-voss"
name: "Augusts Voss"
slug: "augusts-voss"
description: "Augusts Eduardovich Voss was a Soviet politician of Latvian origin and party functionary. Before World War II he worked as a school teacher. In 1940, he was mobilized into the Red Army and served as a politruk. From 1945, he served as a party apparatchik in Latvia. From 1966 till 1984, he was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia that is, the actual leader of the Latvian SSR and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1971 till 1990. From 1984 till 1989, he was Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities, upper chamber of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union."
tagline: "Latvian Soviet politician (1916–1994)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Augusts_Voss.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1916-10-30"
deathDate: "1994-02-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.01
  momentum:             6.75
  historical:           12.29539466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "奥古斯特·沃斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اجسطس فوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avqust_Voss"
    title: "Avqust Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusts_Voss"
    title: "Augusts Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusts_Voss"
    title: "Augusts Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusts_Voss"
    title: "Augusts Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustos_Voss"
    title: "Augustos Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusts_Voss"
    title: "Augusts Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusts_Voss"
    title: "Augusts Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Восс Август Эдуардович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustas_Vossas"
    title: "Augustas Vossas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusts_Voss"
    title: "Augusts Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusts_Voss"
    title: "Augusts Voss"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%2C_%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Восс, Август Эдуардович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B2%D2%91%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D1%81_%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81"
    title: "Авґустс Восс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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