Background
Karvat was born in the city of Brest, on May 28, 1959, in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Karvat was born in the city of Brest, on May 28, 1959, in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
He joined the Soviet Air Force in 1981 and completed courses at the higher piloting school in Armavir.
Afterwards, he was deployed to the Far East of the Russian SFSR. There, Karvat advanced from being a normal pilot, to the commander of a flight training squadron. In August 1994, three years after the Soviet Union collapsed, he decided to serve in the newly-created Armed Forces of Belarus. On September 11, 1994, Karvat took an oath of loyalty to the people of Belarus.
He was given the command of a tactical training unit of the 61st airbase in Baranovichi.
Karvat was honored posthumously for his heroic actions, which took place on November 21, 1996, when his training aircraft (a Sukhoi Su-27p) caught fire. Though he was given the order to eject, the plane was heading directly for a populated area.
Keeping that in mind, Karvat steered the plane until it crashed 1 km away from the area of Hacišča.