Education
Kapto graduated from Dnipropetrovsk University in 1957 with a philosophy degree, studying the problems of war and peace, international relations, political sociology, sociology of morality and education, social activity of youths, and professional ethics.
Career
As of 2008 he is head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization International Board of the Institute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). He was a Soviet Ambassador to Cuba, and the last Soviet and first Russian Ambassador to the Democratic Peoples Republic of of Korea. In 1971 and 1974 he received a first-degree diploma certificate for winning the All-Union Competition for the best popular science works.
Views
In addition to his duties with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Kapto serves as Chairman of the Expert Council under the Top Certifying Commission for Political Science. Chairman of the Council for Defending a Doctoral Thesis under the Institute of Socio-Political Research (ISPR RAS) (sociology of spiritual life and management). Vice-President of the Academy of Social Sciences.
And is a member of the Presidium of the Academy of Political Science.
Membership
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]
Kapto is a member of the Union of Russian Writers.