# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/levan-maruashvili
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:16:05.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/levan-maruashvili"
name: "Levan Maruashvili"
slug: "levan-maruashvili"
description: "Levan Iosifovich Maruashvili was a prominent Georgian geographer. He was a Doctor of Geographical Sciences (1954), professor, Honored Scientist of the Georgian SSR (1966) and Abkhaz ASSR, and honorary member of the Russian Geographical Society (1985). He introduced a new concept of Karstosphere into the science. Krubera Cave, which is the world’s deepest known cave, was discovered by the Georgian researchers in 1960 by the leadership of Professor Levan Maruashvili."
tagline: "Georgian geographer and alpinist (1912–1992)"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1912-10-25"
deathDate: "1992-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.688311688311688
  historical:           5.936573333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Маруашвілі Леван Йосипович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Λεβάν Μαρουασβίλι"
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    title: "Լևան Մարուաշվիլի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ლევან მარუაშვილი"
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    title: "Леван Иосифович Маруашвили"
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    title: "Маруашвили, Леван Иосифович"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump