Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; born 1 May 1938) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet national team (then the Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russia women's national volleyball team.

[3] In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years.

[4][5] Karpol coached the Soviet women to the gold medal at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle[6] and the Russian women to the gold medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg.

[3][9] Croatian journalist and publicist Tomislav Birtic published a book "Karpol: Lunatics - That's What I Need".

[10] This biographical article relating to a Russian sportsperson is a stub.