# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nelya-shtepa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:56:49.347Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nelya-shtepa"
name: "Nelya Shtepa"
slug: "nelya-shtepa"
description: "Nelya Ihorivna Shtepa is a Ukrainian politician. She was mayor of Sloviansk from 2010 until 2014, when Russian paramilitary troops occupied the city. She was imprisoned by the separatists because she refused to fully co-operate with them, freed by Ukrainian forces, but then imprisoned again by Ukrainian authorities for alleged collusion with the Donetsk People's Republic."
tagline: "Former mayor of Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nelya_Shtepa_at_9_May_in_Sloviansk.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1962-09-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.366885333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D0%86%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelja_%C5%A0tepov%C3%A1"
    title: "Nelja Štepová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelja_Schtepa"
    title: "Nelja Schtepa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelya_Shtepa"
    title: "Nelya Shtepa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelya_Shtepa"
    title: "Nelya Shtepa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Штепа, Неля Игоревна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F_%D0%86%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0"
    title: "Штепа Неля Ігорівна"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16338005"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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