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Allegiance
  
Soviet Union

Name
  
Vladimir Karpov

Books
  
The Commander

Battles/wars
  
Great Patriotic War

Service/branch
  
Red Army

Rank
  
Colonel

Battles and wars
  
Eastern Front

Years of service
  
1939–1966

Role
  
Writer


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Born
  
28 July 1922 Orenburg, Russia (
1922-07-28
)

Buried at
  
Troyekurovskoye Cemetery

Awards
  
Order of the Red Banner Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Star (2) Order of the Patriotic War(1st class)

Died
  
January 19, 2010, Moscow, Russia

Education
  
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute

Place of burial
  
Troyekurovskoye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia

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Vladimir Vasilyevich Karpov (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Карпов; 29 July 1922 – 19 January 2010) was a Soviet writer of historical novels and public figure. He was awarded the hero of the Soviet Union for bravery in World War II.

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Karpov was born in Orenburg, and moved to Tashkent as a child. He graduated from the Tashkent Military academy in 1941 when he was also middleweight boxing champion of Uzbekistan. He was repressed in 1941 and transferred to a punishment battalion on the Kalinin Front in 1942. He was rehabilitated due to bravery in the face of the enemy in 1943 and promoted to lieutenant. He was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 for capturing 79 prisoners.

After the war, Karpov attended the Frunze Military Academy (1947) and served in Central Asia, retiring as a regimental commander and chief of staff of a division in 1966.

Karpov started writing in 1945 and graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute via a correspondence course in 1954. From 1966 he was editor of the magazine Oktyabr in Uzbekistan and became editor of the magazine Novy Mir between 1981 and 1986. From 1986 to 1991, he was 1st secretary of the USSR Union of Writers.

Karpov died in Moscow and is buried in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.

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References

Vladimir Karpov Wikipedia