Nikolay Karpol

{{short description|Russian women's volleyball coach (born 1938)}}

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| fullname = Nikolay Vasilyevich Karpol

| nickname = The Howling Bear

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|05|01|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bereznica, Polesie Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic

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| coachyears = 1969–present

| coachteams = VC Uralochka-NTMK Yekaterinburg

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|caption=Nikolay Karpol at the Kremlin in 2018}}

Nikolay Vasiliyevich Karpol ({{langx|ru|Николай Васильевич Карполь}}; born 1 May 1938) is a Russian women's volleyball coach and a longstanding coach of the Soviet national team (then the Commonwealth of Independent States team of 1992 following the collapse of the USSR) and later the Russia women's national volleyball team. Known as The Howling Bear,{{Cite web |url=http://www.volleyballadvisors.com/famous-people-in-volleyball-coach-karpol.html |title=Famous People in Volleyball Coach Nikolai Karpol |website=VolleyballAdvisors.com |access-date=6 September 2024 }} 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,{{Cite newspaper |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/01/sports/sydney-2000-volleyball-cuba-cruises-to-third-straight-gold.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Sydney 2000: Volleyball; Cuba Cruises to Third Straight Gold |last=Roberts |first=Selena |date=1 October 2000 |at=sec. 8 p. 13 |access-date=6 September 2024 }} {{subscription required}} and 2004, for a total of five Olympic medals.{{Cite web |url=https://www.volleyhall.org/nikolay-karpol.html |website=International Volleyball Hall of Fame |title=Nikolay Karpol |access-date=6 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223025358/https://www.volleyhall.org/nikolay-karpol.html |archive-date=23 February 2024 |url-status=live }} In 2020, he set a new world record by coaching Uralochka for 51 years.{{Cite web |url=https://www.championat.com/other/news-4042317-82-letnij-karpol-ustanovil-novyj-mirovoj-rekord-otrabotav-51-god-s-odnoj-komandoj.html |title=82-летний Карполь установил новый мировой рекорд, отработав 51 год с одной командой |website=Championat.com |language=ru |date=20 May 2020 |last=Mozkovoy |first=Anton |access-date=6 September 2024 }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.fivb.com/karpol-dynasty-51-seasons-at-uralochka-and-counting-part-1/ |website=FIVB |title=Karpol Dynasty – 51 Seasons at Uralochka and Counting (Part 1) |date=3 April 2020 |access-date=7 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908005620/https://www.fivb.com/karpol-dynasty-51-seasons-at-uralochka-and-counting-part-1/ |archive-date=8 September 2024 |url-status=live }}

Karpol coached the Soviet women to the gold medal at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle{{Cite web |url=http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Other/Women_Goodwill_1990.html |website=Todor66.com |last=Krastev |first=Todor |title=Women Volleyball Goodwill Games 1990 {{sic|hide=y|Seatle}} (USA) - 31.07-05.08 Winner Soviet Union |access-date=2 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430051302/http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Other/Women_Goodwill_1990.html |archive-date=30 April 2023 |url-status=live }} and the Russian women to the gold medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/04/sports/goodwill-games-notebook-us-and-russia-will-volley-for-gold.html |page=B16 |title=Goodwill Games: Notebook; U.S. and Russia Will Volley for Gold |date=August 4, 1994 |last=Possehl |first=Suzanne |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=7 September 2024 }} {{subscription required}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Other/Women_Goodwill_1994.html |last=Krastev |first=Todor |website=Todor66.com |title=Women Volleyball Goodwill Games 1994 Sankt Petersburg (RUS) - 07-.08 Winner Soviet Union |access-date=7 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429132611/http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Other/Women_Goodwill_1994.html |archive-date=29 April 2023 |url-status=live }}

In 2009, Karpol was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.{{cite web

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|title = Volleyball Hall of Fame Honorees

|website = International Volleyball Hall of Fame

|access-date = 2010-03-11

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|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131124073802/http://www.volleyhall.org/honorees.html

|archive-date = 2013-11-24

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