# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-koptev
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:38:38.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-koptev"
name: "Yuri Koptev"
slug: "yuri-koptev"
description: "Yuri Nikolayevich Koptev is a former General Director of the Russian Space Agency, serving in that role from 1992 to 2004. He was replaced in 2004 by Anatoly Perminov, a former commander of the Russian Space Forces. He has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation."
tagline: "Soviet/Russian engineer and statesman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuri_Koptev_(2003-03-19)_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-03-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.818576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Koptev"
    title: "Yuri Koptev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%98%D7%91"
    title: "יורי קופטב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Koptev"
    title: "Yuri Koptev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Коптев, Юрий Николаевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%A4%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E7%A7%91%E6%99%AE%E6%8D%B7%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "尤里·科普捷夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2895091"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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