# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-serov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:08:00.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-serov"
name: "Ivan Serov"
slug: "ivan-serov"
description: "Ivan Alexandrovich Serov was a Soviet intelligence officer who served as Chairman of the KGB from March 1954 to December 1958 and Director of the GRU from December 1958 to February 1963. Serov was NKVD Commissar of the Ukrainian SSR from 1939 to 1941 and Deputy Commissar of the NKVD under Lavrentiy Beria from 1941 to 1954."
tagline: "KGB officer (1905-1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan_Aleksandrovich_Serov.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1905-08-12"
deathDate: "1990-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  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