After the war Karpov attended the Frunze Military Academy (1947) and served in Central Asia retiring as a regimental commander and chief of staff of a division in 1966. Karpov started writing in 1945 and graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute via a correspondence course in 1954. From 1966 he was editor of the magazine Oktyabr in Uzbekistan and became editor of the magazine Novy Mir between 1981 and 1986. From 1986-1991 he was 1st secretary of the USSR Union of Writers. Karpov died in Moscow and is buried in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.
After the war Karpov attended the Frunze Military Academy (1947) and served in Central Asia retiring as a regimental commander and chief of staff of a division in 1966. Karpov started writing in 1945 and graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute via a correspondence course in 1954. From 1966 he was editor of the magazine Oktyabr in Uzbekistan and became editor of the magazine Novy Mir between 1981 and 1986. From 1986-1991 he was 1st secretary of the USSR Union of Writers. Karpov died in Moscow and is buried in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery.
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