Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin (; 14 October 1938 – 1 September 2020) was a Soviet and Russian children's books writer. Biography Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin was born in the city of Tyumen on 14 October 1938. 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 (Рейс "Ориона"), 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. On 1 September 2020, Vladislav Krapivin died at the age of 81 in Yekaterinburg, where he had lived since 2013. He had been in hospital with pneumonia since 10 August, before his condition deteriorated. Awards and honors Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol 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: "For Valiant Labor", awarded by VLKSM (KomSoMol). Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg. Asteroid 407243 Krapivin, discovered by Timur Kryachko at the Zelenchukskaya Station in 2009, was named in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 November 2016 (). Bibliography "Meeting My Brother" August, the Month of Winds, 1975, (Та сторона, где ветер, 1967) References External links (in Russian) Vladislav Krapivin's LiveJournal (in Russian) Krapivin in Moshkov's Library (in Russian) Vladislav Krapivin: I Still Want to Write and not to Idle My Life Away 1938 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Russian male writers 21st-century Russian male writers People from Tyumen Ural State University alumni Pavel Bazhov Prize recipients Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Lenin Komsomol Prize Russian children's writers Russian fantasy writers Russian male writers Russian science fiction writers Russian speculative fiction critics Soviet children's writers Soviet fantasy writers Soviet male writers Soviet science fiction writers Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia