# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yuri-ovchinnikov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:51:33.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yuri-ovchinnikov"
name: "Yuri Ovchinnikov"
slug: "yuri-ovchinnikov"
description: "Yuri Anatolyevich Ovchinnikov was a Soviet chemist who contributed to bioorganic chemistry and biochemistry. He was elected in 1970 as a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and subsequently became the youngest vice president of the academy in its history (1974-1988). He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1977. He was also president of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (1984-1986), Director of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow (1970-1988) and professor at Moscow State University. From 1972 through to 1984 he served concomitantly as head of the Laboratory of Protein Chemistry at the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of Protein."
tagline: "Soviet bioorganic chemist (1934–1988)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DHC_001_000022_Yuri-Ovchinnikov.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-08-02"
deathDate: "1988-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.34
  momentum:             8.72285729913034
  historical:           5.689310666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ibch.ru/ru/about/history/personalia/738"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Ovchinnikov_(biochemist)"
    title: "Yuri Ovchinnikov (biochemist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "يورى اوفشينيكوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juri_Anatoljewitsch_Owtschinnikow"
    title: "Juri Anatoljewitsch Owtschinnikow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Овчинников Юрій Анатолійович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Owczinnikow"
    title: "Jurij Owczinnikow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B2%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Овчинников, Юрий Анатольевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q905015"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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