To the 110th anniversary of Vladimir Karpov (1912-1977), prose writer, critic, participant in the Great Patriotic War

Vladimir Borisovich Karpov was born on 13 (26) February 1912 in the town of Khvalynsk, Saratov region. In 1920 he moved to Iolcha village, Bragin district, Gomel region. After graduating from high school in 1929, he worked at a sawmill in Rechitsa. In 1930-1937 he taught in various villages of the Bragin district. In 1937-1941, worked as head of the scholarly department and then headmaster of Dolgany secondary school, Sirotino district, Vitebsk region. In 1941 he graduated by correspondence from the M. Gorky Minsk Pedagogical Institute.

During the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir Karpov was an underground fighter, partisan, scout, deputy commander of the special group of the Minsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus. Together with the Red Army reconnaissance, he entered Minsk on the first day of its liberation.

In 1944-1955, he worked as a literary editor at the newspaper “Sovetskaya Belorussiya”, in 1945-1947 an executive secretary of the newspaper “Litaratura i Mastatstva” (Literature and Art), in 1947-1960 editor and then head of the prose and drama department in the magazine Polymya. From 1960 he was engaged in literary activity.

He died on August 6, 1977. A street in Minsk is named after the writer.

He is the author of works devoted to the struggle of Belarusian partisans and underground fighters against the Nazi invaders, the life of workers and intelligentsia in Belarus: novels “Year by Year” (1957), “Spring Showers” (1961), “The Bloody Banks of the Nemiga” (1962), “The Hundredth Youth” (1971), novellas “The Defenders of the Future” (1948), “Without the Neutral Zone” (1950), etc. He is the author of a book of memoirs and stories “Confession of Hate and Love” (1976). He researched the works of K. Chorny, M. Lynkov, K. Krapiva.

The Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art (BGAMLI) holds the personal archival collection of Vladimir Karpov (No. 305), which includes manuscripts of his works (novels, novellas, stories, essays, articles, notes, reviews, etc.), correspondence, biographical materials, documents of his service and literary activities, a collection of photographs and materials collected by the writer for his works.