Vladimir Karpov was born on 27 October 1948 in the village of Turovskaya [ru], Arkhangelsk Oblast, in what was then the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union.
Karpov worked as an inspector of the State Insurance in the village of Krasnaya Gora, in Bryansk Oblast, in the planning and economic department of the Bryansk regional executive committee.
From 1992 to 1993, he was the head of the Territorial Committee for State Property Management of the Bryansk Oblast.
[2] On 16 August 1995, Karpov was also removed from office by decree of the President of the Russia.
[3] From 2000 to 2008, Karpov worked in the office of the Union of Right Forces party in Moscow.