Vladislav Petrovich Krapivin (Russian: Владислав Петрович Крапивин; born 14 October 1938, in Tyumen) is a Russian children's books writer. He received a degree in journalism from the Ural State University. In the course of his studies, he started working at the newspaper "Evening Sverdlovsk", followed by several years in the periodical "Ural Pathfinder". Krapivin has been a full-time writer since 1965. His first book, The Voyage of Orion, was printed by the Sverdlovsk Publishing House in 1962. ...