# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yakov-chernikhov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:00:29.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yakov-chernikhov"
name: "Yakov Chernikhov"
slug: "yakov-chernikhov"
description: "Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov was a Russian architect and graphic designer known for working in the constructivist style. As an architect, painter, graphic artist, and architectural theorist, his greatest contribution was in the genre of architectural fantasy. He was described as the Soviet version of Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Antonio Sant'Elia all at once. His books on architectural design published in Leningrad between 1927 and 1933 was also regarded amongst the most innovative texts of their time."
tagline: "Russian architect, Soviet artist (1889-1951)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1889-12-17"
deathDate: "1951-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.292082666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%B2_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Чернихов Яків Георгійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%DA%A4_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AE%D9%88%DA%A4"
    title: "ياكوڤ تشيرنيخوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakow_Georgijewitsch_Tschernichow"
    title: "Jakow Georgijewitsch Tschernichow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Chernikhov"
    title: "Yakov Chernikhov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%A1kov_Ch%C3%A9rnijov"
    title: "Yákov Chérnijov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iakov_Tchernikhov"
    title: "Iakov Tchernikhov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakov_Georgievi%C4%8D_%C4%8Cernichov"
    title: "Jakov Georgievič Černichov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%82%B3%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95"
    title: "ヤコブ・チェルニホーフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Чернихов, Яков Георгиевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1399741"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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