# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/konstantin-chelpan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:30:22.512Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/konstantin-chelpan"
name: "Konstantin Chelpan"
slug: "konstantin-chelpan"
description: "Konstantin Fyodorovich Chelpan was a prominent Soviet engineer of Greek background. Head of the Engineering Design Bureau of the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory, chief designer of the T-34 tank engine. Awarded the Order of Lenin, he was politically repressed and executed under a mass persecution ordered by Joseph Stalin, but politically rehabilitated after death."
tagline: "Engineer (1899-1938)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Konstantin_Chelpan_1899-1938.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1899-05-27"
deathDate: "1938-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.954681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Челпан Костянтин Федорович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%A4%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B7%CF%82"
    title: "Κωνσταντίνος Τσελπάνης"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Chelpan"
    title: "Konstantin Chelpan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konsztantyin_Fjodorovics_Cselpan"
    title: "Konsztantyin Fjodorovics Cselpan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Chelpan"
    title: "Konstantin Chelpan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Fiodorovici_Celpan"
    title: "Konstantin Fiodorovici Celpan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%A4%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Челпан, Константин Фёдорович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q824012"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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