# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikita-simonyan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:14:36.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikita-simonyan"
name: "Nikita Simonyan"
slug: "nikita-simonyan"
description: "Nikita Pavlovich Simonyan was a Soviet and Russian football striker and coach of Armenian descent. He spent most of his career at Spartak Moscow, where he was top scorer of all time with 160 goals. He played for the Soviet Union national team, winning the gold medal at the 1956 Olympics and reaching the quarter-finals of the 1958 FIFA World Cup. As a manager, he won the Soviet Top League with Ararat Yerevan in 1973."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian footballer and coach"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-10-12"
deathDate: "2025-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.295992
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump