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| birth_name         = Viktor Pavlovich Karpov
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1928|10|09}}
| birth_place        = [[Penza]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|RSFSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1997|02|02|1928|10|09}}
| death_place        = [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]
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'''Viktor Pavlovich Karpov''' ({{langx|ru|Виктор Павлович Карпов}}; 9 October 1928 – 2 February 1997) was a Russian [[diplomat]], Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister in 1990–1991.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.terapeak.com/worth/vintage-photo-of-victor-karpov-smiling/141805560718/|title = Terapeak}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.abebooks.com/9785512297179/Victor-Karpov-russell-jesse-editor-5512297171/plp|title=9785512297179 - AbeBooks}}</ref>
Karpov graduated from the [[Moscow State Institute of International Relations]] in 1951, and went on to work in various diplomatic posts in the central offices of the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] and abroad.
From 1960 to 1962, he was the Senior Adviser at the Soviet Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]. Since 1968 joined the Soviet-American negotiations on reduction of strategic weapons in [[Helsinki]], [[Vienna]], [[Geneva]].
* 1990–1991 — Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, in charge of Soviet-American relations and negotiations on reduction of strategic weapons, served as the Chief Soviet Strategic Arms Control Negotiator.- books.google.ru/books?{{ISBN|0-271-01603-5}}
* Karpov personally contributed to working out such important treaties as [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty|INF]] Treaty, START-1 and START-2 Treaty.
* Since 1991 worked as the advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia in [[Moscow]] until his death in Moscow in 1997<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gettyimages.com.au/galleries/search?phrase=Victor+P.+Karpov&family=editorial&specificpeople=234878|title = Editorial & News Stock Images – News Sports, Celebrity Photos - Getty Images}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4QhNGxdtIIcC&q=Victor+Karpov+diplomat&pg=PA377 | title=My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter| isbn=978-0271040929| last1=Palazchenko| first1=Pavel| date=November 2010| publisher=Penn State Press}}</ref>
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