About Vladislav Krapivin
Lived 1938 – 2020 (aged 81). Vladislav Krapivin was a Russian writer, children's writer, journalist, screenwriter, science fiction writer and prose writer.
Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin (; 14 October 1938 – 1 September 2020) was a Soviet and Russian children's books writer.
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. August, the Month of Winds, 1975, (Та сторона, где ветер, 1967)
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Who was Vladislav Krapivin?
Soviet and Russian writer (1938–2020)
When was Vladislav Krapivin born?
Vladislav Krapivin was born on 14 October 1938 in Tyumen.
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Vladislav Krapivin died on 1 September 2020 in Yekaterinburg.
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Vladislav Krapivin was a writer, children's writer, journalist, screenwriter, science fiction writer and prose writer.
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Vladislav Krapivin was Russian.
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