# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yakov-davydov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:34:59.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yakov-davydov"
name: "Yakov Davydov"
slug: "yakov-davydov"
description: "Yakov Khristoforovich Davtyan (Davydov) (Armenian: Յակով Դավթյան (Դավիդով), Russian: Яков Христофорович Давтян (Давыдов); 10 October 1888 – 28 July 1938) was the first head of the Cheka's Foreign Department from 1921 to 1922, the first head of Soviet foreign intelligence and later a Soviet diplomat."
tagline: "Soviet diplomat and intelligence chief (1888–1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jakow_Dawtian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1888-10-10"
deathDate: "1938-07-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Jakov Davidov"
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    title: "Jakov Davydov"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump