# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolai-kardashev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:04:05.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolai-kardashev"
name: "Nikolai Kardashev"
slug: "nikolai-kardashev"
description: "Nikolai Semyonovich Kardashev was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist best known for the Kardashev scale, which measures a civilization's status in technological evolution based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing and using. He was also the deputy director of the Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nikolai_Kardashev_1980.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-04-25"
deathDate: "2019-08-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.4672320740169624
  historical:           21.37770133333333
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump