# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viktor-samsonov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:36:45.269Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viktor-samsonov"
name: "Viktor Samsonov"
slug: "viktor-samsonov"
description: "General of the Army Viktor Nikolayevich Samsonov was a Russian military officer. He became a Soviet Army officer after graduating the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School in 1964. He was the last Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1991 to 1992 and was in command of all military forces on the territory of the Russian SFSR after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was then the Chief of the General Staff of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Armed Forces from 1992 to 1993, Chief of Staff for Coordinating Military Cooperation of the CIS Member States from 1993 to 1996, and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from 1996 to 1997."
tagline: "Russian general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Viktor_Samsonov_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1941-11-10"
deathDate: "2024-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.22
  momentum:             0.09554140127388536
  historical:           6.583661333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "维克托·萨姆索诺夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ڤيكتور سامسونوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Samsonov"
    title: "Viktor Samsonov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Samsonov"
    title: "Viktor Samsonov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%91"
    title: "ויקטור סמסונוב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Самсонов, Виктор Николаевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Nikolayevich_Samsonov"
    title: "Viktor Nikolayevich Samsonov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4407042"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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