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Vladimir Vasilyevich Karpov (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Карпов; 28 July 1922 – 18 January 2010) was a Soviet soldier, writer of historical novels and public figure. He was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery in World War II. Karpov was born in Orenburg, and moved to Tashkent as a child.
Vladimir Karpov was born on 27 October 1948 in the village of Turovskaya , Arkhangelsk Oblast, in what was then the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. He graduated from the Leningrad Financial and Credit College and the Moscow Financial and Economic Institute .
Vladimir Karpov; Grigory Karpov ru; Ivan Petrovich Karpov ru; Ivan Yakovlevich Karpov ru; Mikhail Karpov ru; Nikolai Karpov ru; Sergey Karpov ru; Stefan Karpov ru ...
Karpov (Russian: Ка́рпов) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aleksandr Karpov (1917-1944), Soviet ace, double Hero of the Soviet Union; Andriy Karpov (born 1987), Ukrainian motorcyclist; Anatoly Karpov (born 1951), Russian chess grandmaster, Undisputed World Chess Champion 1975–85, and FIDE World Chess Champion 1993 ...
S. German Sadulaev; Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin; Mikhail Samarsky; Fedor Samokhin; Genrikh Sapgir; Alexander Selin; Yulian Semyonov; Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky; Vladimir ...
Karpov's chess tournament successes include over 160 first-place finishes. [1] He had a peak Elo rating of 2780, and his 102 total months world number one is the third-longest of all time, behind Magnus Carlsen and Garry Kasparov. Karpov is also an elected Member of the State Duma in Russia.
After 17 games, Karpov had a 4–1 lead. Korchnoi won game 21, but Karpov won game 27, putting him on the brink of victory with a 5–2 lead. Korchnoi fought back, scoring three wins and one draw in the next four games, to equalise the match at 5–5 after 31 games. However, Karpov won the very next game, and the match, by 6–5 with 21 draws. [5]
He would dominate for 22 years from 1984 until his retirement from professional chess on 10 March 2005, with three brief interruptions: Anatoly Karpov briefly held the world number one ranking again in July 1985, as well as during 1994 when FIDE excluded Kasparov from the list; and the fourth world number one, Vladimir Kramnik, briefly held the ...