# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kirsan-ilyumzhinov
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:03:29.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kirsan-ilyumzhinov"
name: "Kirsan Ilyumzhinov"
slug: "kirsan-ilyumzhinov"
description: "Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Russian oligarch, administrator and politician. He was President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and was president of FIDE, the chess international governing body, from 1995 to 2018. He has also been at the forefront of promoting chess in schools in Russia and overseas. He is the founder of Novy Vzglyad publishing house."
tagline: "Russian public figure"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1962-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump