# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasily-karazin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:35.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasily-karazin"
name: "Vasily Karazin"
slug: "vasily-karazin"
description: "Vasily Nazarovich Karazin was a Russian Enlightenment figure, intellectual, inventor, scientific publisher, founder of the Ministry of National Education in the Russian Empire, and of the Imperial Kharkov University. He was active in such areas as: political activism, social engagement, education, educational policy, agricultural research, meteorology. Made countless discoveries in organic and inorganic chemistry, was the first one to propose to make a network of weather station spanning the whole country."
tagline: "Russian scientist (1773-1842)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1773-01-30"
deathDate: "1842-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.66
  momentum:             0.8038976857490866
  historical:           11.863864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Каразін Василь Назарович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Каразин Василий Назарович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Василий Каразин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassili_Nasarowitsch_Karasin"
    title: "Wassili Nasarowitsch Karasin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Karazin"
    title: "Vasily Karazin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassili_Karazine"
    title: "Vassili Karazine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Վասիլի Կարազին"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Karazin"
    title: "Vasily Karazin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassili_Karazine"
    title: "Vassili Karazine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasilij_Karazin"
    title: "Wasilij Karazin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Karazin"
    title: "Vasily Karazin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Каразин, Василий Назарович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Василиј Каразин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vasilij Karazin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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