Vladislav Krapivin

[1] Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin was born in the city of Tyumen on 14 October 1938.

In the course of his studies, he started working at the newspaper "Evening Sverdlovsk", followed by several years in the periodical "Ural Pathfinder".

His first book, The Voyage of Orion (Рейс "Ориона"), was printed by the Sverdlovsk Publishing House in 1962.

[citation needed] 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.

[2] On 1 September 2020, Vladislav Krapivin died at the age of 81 in Yekaterinburg, where he had lived since 2013.