# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valentin-yanin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:44:54.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valentin-yanin"
name: "Valentin Yanin"
slug: "valentin-yanin"
description: "Valentin Lavrentievich Yanin was a leading Russian historian who authored 700 books and articles. He had also edited a number of important journals and primary sources, including works on medieval Russian law, sphragistics and epigraphy, archaeology and history. His expertise was medieval Rus' especially Novgorod the Great, where he had headed archaeological digs beginning in 1962."
tagline: "Russian academic (1929–2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Valentinyanin.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-02-06"
deathDate: "2020-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.63186
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm3426825"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump