# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valerii-bespalov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:04:03.173Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valerii-bespalov"
name: "Valerii Bespalov"
slug: "valerii-bespalov"
description: "Valery Alekseyevich Bespalov is an engineer who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. After the Chernobyl disaster, he was one of the three men in the \"suicide squad\" team to drain the steam suppression pools under the fourth reactor building. In 2019 he was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine."
tagline: "Ukrainian engineer on Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Chernobyl_-_power_plant_-_reactor_4_02.jpg/330px-Chernobyl_-_power_plant_-_reactor_4_02.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1957-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.665314666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Bespalov"
    title: "Valery Bespalov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Валерий Беспалов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Bespalov"
    title: "Valery Bespalov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Беспалов Валерій Олексійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Беспалов, Валерий Алексеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerij_Bezpalov"
    title: "Valerij Bezpalov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64168459"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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