# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-orlov
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:15:45.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-orlov"
name: "Yuri Orlov"
slug: "yuri-orlov"
description: "Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords, he was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. Following his release from exile, Orlov was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. and became a professor of physics at Cornell University."
tagline: "Soviet physicist and dissident (1924–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuri_Orlov_(1986).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-08-13"
deathDate: "2020-09-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.19
  momentum:             6.107347518543272
  historical:           16.98474666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%A4%E9%87%8C%C2%B7%E5%A5%A7%E7%88%BE%E6%B4%9B%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "尤里·奧爾洛夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "يوري أورلوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%DA%A4"
    title: "يورى اورلوڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "یوری اورلوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Orlov"
    title: "Yuri Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iuri_Orlov"
    title: "Iuri Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Fjodorovi%C4%8D_Orlov"
    title: "Jurij Fjodorovič Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Fjodorowitsch_Orlow"
    title: "Juri Fjodorowitsch Orlow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Orlov"
    title: "Yuri Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Orlov"
    title: "Yuri Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Orlov"
    title: "Juri Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "یوری اورلوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Orlov"
    title: "Juri Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youri_Fiodorovitch_Orlov"
    title: "Youri Fiodorovitch Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Orlov"
    title: "Yuri Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%95%D5%BC%D5%AC%D5%B8%D5%BE"
    title: "Յուրի Օռլով"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Orlov"
    title: "Jurij Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Or%C5%82ow_(fizyk)"
    title: "Jurij Orłow (fizyk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A4%D1%91%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Орлов, Юрий Фёдорович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Orlov"
    title: "Yuri Orlov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Орлов Юрій Федорович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1280936"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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