Aleksandr Karpov was born on January 20, 1922 in Kharinskaya, Ryazan Governorate, RSFSR [now Moscow Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Trail of Thousand Versts (1968), Svadebnaya noch (1980) and Daleko v gorakh (1958). He died on January 15, 1998 in Minsk, Belarus.