# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toivo-vaha
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:05:29.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toivo-vaha"
name: "Toivo Vähä"
slug: "toivo-vaha"
description: "Toivo Juhonpoika Vähä was a Finnish-born Soviet colonel of the KGB. He fled to Soviet Russia after the 1918 Finnish Civil War and made a long career in the Red Army and the Soviet Border Troops. Vähä was one of the few Finnish exile revolutionaries who survived the Great Purge. He is best known for his role in the 1925 capture of the British super-spy Sidney Reilly during the Operation Trust."
tagline: "Finnish–Soviet intelligence officer (1901–1984)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901-04-12"
deathDate: "1984-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.079626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toivo_V%C3%A4h%C3%A4"
    title: "Toivo Vähä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toivo_V%C3%A4h%C3%A4"
    title: "Toivo Vähä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toivo_V%C3%A4h%C3%A4"
    title: "Toivo Vähä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8F%D1%85%D1%8F%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B9%D0%B2%D0%BE_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Вяхя, Тойво Иванович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8F%D5%B8%D5%B5%D5%BE%D5%B8_%D5%8E%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%A1"
    title: "Տոյվո Վյահա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toivo_V%C3%A4h%C3%A4"
    title: "Toivo Vähä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4130524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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