# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dmitry-zimin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:43:11.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dmitry-zimin"
name: "Dmitry Zimin"
slug: "dmitry-zimin"
description: "Dmitry Borisovich Zimin was a Russian radio scientist and businessman, who was the founder and honorary president of VimpelCom. From his retirement in the early 2000s, he became known as a philanthropist. He founded the Dynasty Foundation and the Zimin Foundation."
tagline: "Russian entrepreneur and researcher (1933–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-04-28"
deathDate: "2021-12-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.592990666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "دیمیتری زیمین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديمترى زيمين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Zimin"
    title: "Dmitry Zimin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Зімін Дмитро Борисович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Зимин, Дмитрий Борисович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Зимин Дмитрий Борисович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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