# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolay-vasin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:25:40.327Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolay-vasin"
name: "Nikolay Vasin"
slug: "nikolay-vasin"
description: "Nikolai Ivanovich \"Kolya\" Vasin was a Russian music historian, writer, one of the main popularizers of the Beatles' creative work inside the USSR and Russia, collector who became prominent in the Soviet Union for collecting Beatles memorabilia."
tagline: "Russian musicologist (1945-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kolya_Vasin%2C_22_august_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-08-24"
deathDate: "2018-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.69
  momentum:             12.40657894736842
  historical:           3.777901333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1798505/"
    handle:    "nm1798505"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%89_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "نيكولاى فاسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolya_Vasin"
    title: "Kolya Vasin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8F"
    title: "Васин, Коля"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BD"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4105023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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