# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolai-durov
# Generated: 2026-09-06T21:30:28.987Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolai-durov"
name: "Nikolai Durov"
slug: "nikolai-durov"
description: "Nikolai Valeryevich Durov is a Russian programmer and mathematician. He is the elder brother of Pavel Durov, with whom he founded the social networking site VK and later Telegram Messenger. He is considered to be reserved and rarely appears in public."
tagline: "Russian programmer and mathematician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1980-11-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.18
  momentum:             9.077328646748683
  historical:           20.128652
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/eng/perso/durov.php"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov"
    title: "Nikolai Durov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "نيكولاي دوروف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "نيكولاى دوروف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "নিকোলাই দুরভ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Walerjewitsch_Durow"
    title: "Nikolai Walerjewitsch Durow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaj_Durov"
    title: "Nikolaj Durov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikol%C3%A1i_D%C3%BArov"
    title: "Nikolái Dúrov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81"
    title: "نیکلای دورف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov"
    title: "Nikolai Durov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%C3%AF_Dourov"
    title: "Nikolaï Dourov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaj_Doerov"
    title: "Nikolaj Doerov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyikolaj_Valerjevics_Durov"
    title: "Nyikolaj Valerjevics Durov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Valeryevich_Dubov"
    title: "Nikolai Valeryevich Dubov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaj_Durov"
    title: "Nikolaj Durov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%BD%9C%EB%9D%BC%EC%9D%B4_%EB%91%90%EB%A1%9C%ED%94%84"
    title: "니콜라이 두로프"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaj_Doerov"
    title: "Nikolaj Doerov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov"
    title: "Nikolai Durov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Дуров, Николай Валерьевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov"
    title: "Nikolai Durov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Николај Дуров"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Durov"
    title: "Nikolai Durov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Дуров Микола Валерійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BC%E5%8F%A4%E6%8B%89%C2%B7%E6%9D%9C%E6%B4%9B%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "尼古拉·杜洛夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7035781"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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