# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasili-oshchepkov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:29:10.273Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasili-oshchepkov"
name: "Vasili Oshchepkov"
slug: "vasili-oshchepkov"
description: "Vasili Sergeyevich Oshchepkov was a Russian and Soviet researcher of different types of national wrestling and martial arts. He was ranked as a Merited Master of Sports of the USSR and an Honored Coach of the USSR. He was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art developed in the Soviet Union. During the Great Purge, Oshchepkov was arrested in 1937 and accused of being a Japanese spy; he was executed in prison as a result."
tagline: "Russian martial artist (1892–1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/VSOshchepkov1912.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1892-12-25"
deathDate: "1937-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.596416000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ощепков Василь Сергійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فاسيلى اوشيبكوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Oshchepkov"
    title: "Vasili Oshchepkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassili_Ochtchepkov"
    title: "Vassili Ochtchepkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%A6'%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91"
    title: "וסילי אושצ'פקוב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vasilij Oščepkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%97%E3%82%B3%E3%83%95"
    title: "ワシリー・オシェプコフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ощепков, Василий Сергеевич"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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