# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolay-kononov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:27:47.095Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolay-kononov"
name: "Nikolay Kononov"
slug: "nikolay-kononov"
description: "Nikolay Kononov is a Russian writer and journalist. He served as editor-in-chief of The Firm's Secret (2014–2017) and its editorial director until 2018. He is the author of four books: Deux Sine Machina: Stories of 20 crazy persons who made business in Russia from scratch (2011), Durov's Code. The real story of the social network \"VKontakte\" and its Creator (2012), The Uprising (2019), and The Night We Disappeared (2022)."
tagline: "Russian writer and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nikolay_Kononov_4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1980-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.280058666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/nickolaykononov"
    handle:    "nickolaykononov"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/nickolaykononov/"
    handle:    "nickolaykononov"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/nickolaykononov"
    handle:    "nickolaykononov"
sources:
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    title: "Նիկոլայ Կոնոնով"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نيكولاى كونونوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nikolay Kononov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niko%C5%82aj_Kononow"
    title: "Nikołaj Kononow"
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    title: "Кононов, Николай Викторович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump