# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolay-karpol
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:56:02.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolay-karpol"
name: "Nikolay Karpol"
slug: "nikolay-karpol"
description: "Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet national team and later the Russia women's national volleyball team. Known as The Howling Bear, 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."
tagline: "Soviet-Russian volleyball coach (born 1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nikolay_Karpol_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1938-05-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.08
  momentum:             11.04938271604938
  historical:           11.22441333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Мікалай Карполь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мікалай Васільевіч Карполь"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Karpol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Karpol"
    title: "Nikolay Karpol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "نیکولای کارپول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ニコライ・カルポリ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Nikołaj Karpol"
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    title: "Nikolay Karpol"
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    title: "Карполь, Николай Васильевич"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump