| Nikolay Karpol | |||||||
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 Nikolay Karpol at the Kremlin in 2018 | |||||||
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| Full name | Nikolay Vasilyevich Karpol | ||||||
| Nickname | The Howling Bear | ||||||
| Born | 1 May 1938 Bereznica, Polesie Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic | ||||||
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Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Карполь; 1 May 1938, Bereznitsa village, former Polesie Voivodeship, Republic of Poland) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet Olympic Team, the Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 (following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russian Federation’s Olympic Team. Known as The Howling Bear,[1] Karpol was a regular at the Olympic Games, with his teams usually earning a last call on the Olympic podium, winning gold medals in 1980 and 1988 and taking the silver medals in 1992, 2000 and 2004 for a total of five Olympic medals. In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years.[2]
Gold medal (with 
URS) Gold medal (with URS)
Silver medal (with 
EUN) Silver medal (with 
RUS) Silver medal (with RUS) Gold medal (with URS) Gold medal (with URS) Silver medal (with URS) Silver medal (with URS) Gold medal (with URS) Silver medal (with URS) Gold medal (with URS) Gold medal (with URS) Gold medal (with RUS)
Bronze medal (with RUS) Gold medal (with RUS) Gold medal (with RUS) Gold medal (with RUS) Bronze medal (with RUS) Bronze medal (with RUS) Bronze medal (with RUS) Bronze medal (with RUS) Gold medal (with RUS) Silver medal (with RUS) Gold medal (with RUS) Silver medal (with RUS) Gold medal (with RUS) Bronze medal (with RUS) Silver medal (with RUS)
Champion (with 
Uralochka Sverdlovsk) Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk) Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk) Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
Runner-Up (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk) Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk) Champion (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk) Runner-Up (with Uralochka Sverdlovsk)
Third Place (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) Third Place (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) Champion (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) Champion (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) Runner-Up (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) Runner-Up (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) Runner-Up (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) Third Place (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg) Runner-Up (with Uralochka Yekaterinburg)
For lifetime dedication and great career, he was inducted in 2009 to the Volleyball Hall of Fame.[3]
Croatian journalist and publicist Tomislav Birtic published a book Karpol: Lunatics - That's What I Need.[4]
