# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-polyakov
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:59:36.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-polyakov"
name: "Samuel Polyakov"
slug: "samuel-polyakov"
description: "Samuel (Shmuel) Polyakov was a Russian businessman, informally known as the \"most famous railroad king\" of the Russian Empire, the senior member of the Polyakov business family, a philanthropist and a Jewish civil rights activist, co-founder of World ORT. Polyakov's business interests concentrated in southern Russia and Ukraine. By the time of his sudden death at the age of 50 he was credited with the construction of one quarter of Russia's railroads, his personal net worth was estimated at 31.4 million roubles."
tagline: "Russian businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuil_Polyakov_(1837-1888).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1837-12-24"
deathDate: "1888-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.355473333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%97%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Поляков Самуїл Соломонович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%DA%A4"
    title: "سامويل پولياكوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%9E"
    title: "Самуіл Саламонавіч Палякоў"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuil_Solmonowitsch_Poljakow"
    title: "Samuil Solmonowitsch Poljakow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Polyakov"
    title: "Samuel Polyakov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91"
    title: "שמואל פוליאקוב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Поляков, Самуил Соломонович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1861824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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