# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/igor-kostin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:14:43.421Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/igor-kostin"
name: "Igor Kostin"
slug: "igor-kostin"
description: "Igor Fedorovich Kostin was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kyiv, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. Kostin's aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was widely published around the world, showing the extent of the devastation, and triggering fear throughout the world of radioactivity contamination the accident caused, when the Soviet media was working to censor information regarding the accident, releasing limited information regarding the accident on 28 April 1986, until the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991."
tagline: "Ukrainian photographer (1936–2015)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1936-12-27"
deathDate: "2015-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.65346
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ايجور كوستين"
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    title: "Игор Костин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Igor Kostin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Fjodorowitsch_Kostin"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kostin"
    title: "Igor Kostin"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kostin"
    title: "Igor Kostin"
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    title: "ایگور کوستین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Igor Kostine"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Fedorovics_Kosztyin"
    title: "Ihor Fedorovics Kosztyin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Kostin"
    title: "Ihor Kostin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Costin"
    title: "Igor Costin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump