# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eduard-berzin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:43:29.437Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eduard-berzin"
name: "Eduard Berzin"
slug: "eduard-berzin"
description: "Eduard Petrovich Berzin was a Latvian Bolshevik, Chekist and NKVD officer that set up Dalstroy, which instituted a system of slave-labor camps in Kolyma, North-Eastern Siberia, one of the most brutal Gulag regions, where hundreds of thousands of political prisoners died or were murdered in subsequent decades."
tagline: "Latvian NKVD officer (1894–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berzin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1894-02-19"
deathDate: "1938-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.009185333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Берзін Едуард Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Berzin"
    title: "Eduard Berzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Berzin"
    title: "Eduard Berzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Berzin"
    title: "Eduard Berzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Berzine"
    title: "Édouard Berzine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%82%A5%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3"
    title: "エドゥアルド・ベルジン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduards_B%C4%93rzi%C5%86%C5%A1"
    title: "Eduards Bērziņš"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Berzin"
    title: "Eduard Berzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Berzin"
    title: "Eduard Berzin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Берзин, Эдуард Петрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1977228"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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