# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-afanasiev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:44:41.971Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-afanasiev"
name: "Yuri Afanasiev"
slug: "yuri-afanasiev"
description: "Yury Nikolayevich Afanasyev was a Soviet/Russian historian and one of the leaders of Russia's democratic movement in the late 1980s – early 1990s. He was also the rector of the Moscow State Institute of History and Archives which he transformed in 1991 into the Russian State University of Humanities (RSUH) and led until 2003, making it into one of Russia's most internationally prominent educational institutions."
tagline: "Soviet and Russian politician and historian (1934-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RIAN_archive_418402_People's_Deputy_of_USSR_Yury_Afanasyev_attends_Moscow_meeting_to_support_Boris_Yeltsin_and_Russian_presidential_referendum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1934-09-05"
deathDate: "2015-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump