# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dmitry-konstantinovich-belyayev
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:28.213Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dmitry-konstantinovich-belyayev"
name: "Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev"
slug: "dmitry-konstantinovich-belyayev"
description: "Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayev was a Soviet geneticist and academician who served as director of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (IC&G) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, from 1959 to 1985. His decades-long effort to breed domesticated silver foxes was described by The New York Times as “arguably the most extraordinary breeding experiment ever conducted.” A 2010 article in Scientific American stated that Belyayev “may be the man most responsible for our understanding of the process by which wolves were domesticated into our canine companions.”"
tagline: "Russian biologist (1917–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Postal_Card_of_Russia_-_2017_-_195_-_Russian_Academy_of_Sciences_-_DK_Belyayev.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1917-07-04"
deathDate: "1985-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.502511610369971
  historical:           16.24439333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump