# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yury-votintsev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:19:09.645Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yury-votintsev"
name: "Yury Votintsev"
slug: "yury-votintsev"
description: "Colonel General Yuriy Vsyevolodovich Votintsev was a commander of the Soviet Air Defense's Missile Defense Units. He is best known for the revelation in his memoirs in 1998 of the 1983 incident involving Stanislav Petrov in which the latter probably prevented an inadvertent nuclear war between the United States and the former Soviet Union."
tagline: "Soviet colonel general"
gender: "male"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1919-10-23"
deathDate: "2005-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.38
  momentum:             2.441860465116279
  historical:           5.481966666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Wotincew"
    title: "Jurij Wotincew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Votintsev"
    title: "Yuri Votintsev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurij_Votincev"
    title: "Jurij Votincev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votinsev_Yuriy"
    title: "Votinsev Yuriy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Вотинцев, Юрий Всеволодович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%B2_%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%96%D0%B9_%D0%92%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Вотінцев Юрій Всеволодович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8061818"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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