# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-gaikis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:14:50.452Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-gaikis"
name: "Leon Gaikis"
slug: "leon-gaikis"
description: "Leonid Yakovlevich Gaikis was a Soviet diplomat and the second Soviet ambassador to Spain, where he served during the Spanish Civil War. In May 1937, he was recalled to Moscow, arrested and soon shot as part of the Great Purge."
tagline: "Soviet diplomat (b. 1898, d. 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leon_Gaykis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898"
deathDate: "1937-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.677826666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Gaykis"
    title: "Leon Gaykis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ليون جيكيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Gaikis"
    title: "Leon Gaikis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гайкис, Леонид Яковлевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "ליאון גייקיס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Hajkis"
    title: "Leon Hajkis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16635514"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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