# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yasen-zasursky
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:01:13.790Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yasen-zasursky"
name: "Yasen Zasursky"
slug: "yasen-zasursky"
description: "Yassen Nikolayevich Zassoursky was a Soviet and Russian literary scholar, media theorist, journalist, and educator. He held the degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences (1967) and the academic title of professor (1968). From 1965 to 2007, he served as dean of the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University, and from 2007 to 2021 as president of the Faculty of Journalism."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian literary critic (1929-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%AF%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1929-10-29"
deathDate: "2021-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.64
  momentum:             6.087883648027993
  historical:           3.953241333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassen_Zassoursky"
    title: "Yassen Zassoursky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasen_Zasurskij"
    title: "Jasen Zasurskij"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%AF%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Засурский, Ясен Николаевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%AF%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Засурський Ясен Миколайович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4188305"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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