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Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin is a Russian children"s books writer

Background

Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin was born in the city of Tyumen on 14 October 1938.

Education

Ural State University.

Career

He received a degree in journalism from the Ural State University. In the course of his studies, he started working at the newspaper "Evening Sverdlovsk", followed by several years in the periodical "Ural Pathfinder". Krapivin has been a full-time writer since 1965.

His first book, The Voyage of Orion, was printed by the Sverdlovsk Publishing House in 1962.

Over the course of his literary career, Krapivin became the author of more than 200 publications, many of which have been translated. In 1961 Vladislav Krapivin founded a youth group called "Caravel" with the main activities for the kids that of journalism, fencing, sailing and all things maritime.

"Caravel" exists to this day, led by its former graduates.

Achievements

  • Laureate of the Lenin Communist Youth League Prize. Literary award Aelita. The Arkady Gaidar Award and many others Orders: Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of Friendship of Peoples. Medals: "Foreign Valiant Labor", awarded by VLKSM (KomSoMol). Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg.

Membership

Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Union of Writers.