Vladimir Ivanovich Klipel

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Vladimir Ivanovich Klipel – a Far Eastern writer, draftsman, meteorologist, Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR, member of the Union of Writers, participant in the Great Patriotic War, and holder of six combat orders.  He was born on July 28, 1917 at the In station of the Far Eastern Railway into a blacksmith's family. At 15, immediately after finishing seven years of schooling, he worked as a trackman, draftsman, and meteorologist. In 1937 he decided to become an artist and enrolled in the Sverdlovsk Art School, but did not finish — he was drafted into the army, in which he served for seven years from 1939 to 1946.  

He took part in the Soviet–Finnish War of 1939–1940, in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, and in the war with Japan in the summer of 1945. For his combat merits he was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st class, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, and many medals. From March 1945 he was married to a comrade-in-arms, Guard Lieutenant Maria, and had four children. 

He is the author of novels about the war — "Medvezhiy Val", "Ispytanie na vernost'" (Test of Fidelity), "Soldaty Otechestva" (Soldiers of the Fatherland), "Ispoved'" (Confession). Vladimir Klipel is also the author of books about nature: "Debri" (The Wilds), "Dnevnik letnikh stranstviy" (Diary of Summer Wanderings), "Lesnye uzory" (Forest Patterns), "Ulybka Dzhugdzhura" (The Smile of Djugdzhur), "Kalendar Priamurya" (Calendar of the Amur Region). In 1991 V. I. Klipel was awarded the title "Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR", and on May 22, 1995 he received the title "Honorary Citizen of the city of Khabarovsk." Vladimir Ivanovich Klipel died on August 4, 2011 in Khabarovsk.