# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonid-shebarshin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:48:29.870Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonid-shebarshin"
name: "Leonid Shebarshin"
slug: "leonid-shebarshin"
description: "Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin was an intelligence officer and spy for the Soviet Union. He served in the First Chief Directorate (FCD), the foreign intelligence arm of the KGB. In January 1989, he was promoted to the head of the FCD when his former boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov, was promoted to KGB chief. Prior to that Shebarshin had served as Kryuchkov's deputy from April 1987."
tagline: "Soviet intelligence chairman (1935–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Leonid_Shebarshin.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-03-24"
deathDate: "2012-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.03820133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ليونيد شبرشين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonid Wladimirowitsch Schebarschin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Shebarshin"
    title: "Leonid Shebarshin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonid Šebaršin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "레오니트 셰바르신"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leonid Szebarszyn"
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    title: "ليونيد ولاديميروويچ شېبارشين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шебаршин, Леонид Владимирович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "列昂尼德·舍巴尔申"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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