# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/galina-yershova
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:31:09.586Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/galina-yershova"
name: "Galina Yershova"
slug: "galina-yershova"
description: "Galina Gavrilovna Yershova is a Russian academic historian, linguist, and epigrapher, who specialises in the study of the ancient civilisations, cultures, and languages of the New World. As an Americanist scholar, her area of expertise is in the field of Mesoamerican studies, and in particular that of the pre-Columbian Maya civilisation, its historical literature, and its writing system. Yershova is a former student and protégé of the Russian linguist and epigrapher Yuri Knorozov, renowned for his central contributions towards the decipherment of the Maya script."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian academic"
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gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-03-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7980652962515116
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "جالينا يرشوفا"
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    title: "Galina Yershova"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump