# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vladimir-pasechnik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:50:03.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vladimir-pasechnik"
name: "Vladimir Pasechnik"
slug: "vladimir-pasechnik"
description: "Vladimir Artemovich Pasechnik was a senior Soviet biologist and bioweaponeer who defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, alerting Western intelligence to the vast scope of Moscow's clandestine biological warfare (BW) programme, known as Biopreparat. His revelations that the program was ten times larger than previously suspected were confirmed in 1992 with the defection to the United States of Colonel Kanatjan Alibekov, the No. 2 scientist for the program."
tagline: "Soviet biologist (1937–2001)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-10-12"
deathDate: "2001-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.692406666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pasechnik"
    title: "Vladimir Pasechnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "فلاديمير باسكنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wladimir_Artjomowitsch_Passetschnik"
    title: "Wladimir Artjomowitsch Passetschnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%90%D1%80%D1%82%D1%91%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Пасечник, Владимир Артёмович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "ولادیمیر پاشنیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Pasechnik"
    title: "Vladimir Pasechnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2587186"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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