# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yevgeny-pepelyaev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:11:27.393Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yevgeny-pepelyaev"
name: "Yevgeny Pepelyaev"
slug: "yevgeny-pepelyaev"
description: "Yevgeny Georgievich Pepelyaev was a Soviet fighter pilot in the Korean War; most Russian sources credit him as the second-highest scoring pilot in the war with 19 shootdowns, placing him only below Nikolai Sutyagin. However, some Western sources indicate him to be the top ace of the war, and he claimed to have 23 victories in his memoir, which would put him above Sutyagin's 22 shootdowns."
tagline: "Soviet fighter pilot of the Korean War (1918–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Evgeny_Pepelyaev.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1918-03-18"
deathDate: "2013-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.1
  momentum:             0.84
  historical:           6.574769333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%94%D0%B2_%D0%84%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Пепеляєв Євген Георгійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B5%D0%B2"
    title: "Евгений Пепеляев"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Pepelyaev"
    title: "Yevgeny Pepelyaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ievgueni_Pepelia%C3%AFev"
    title: "Ievgueni Pepeliaïev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Pepelyaev"
    title: "Yevgeny Pepelyaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewgienij_Piepielajew"
    title: "Jewgienij Piepielajew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%95%D0%B2%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Пепеляев, Евгений Георгиевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3148038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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