Vladimir Sharpatov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetVladimir Sharpatov
airplane pilot
Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1940
Place of Birth: Krasnogorsky, Mari El Republic, Russia
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Vladimir Sharpatov
- Vladimir Ilyich Sharpatov (Russian: ?????´??? ????´? ?????´???, born March 21, 1940, Krasnogorkiy village of Zvenigovsky District, Mari El) is a civil aviation pilot and Hero of the Russian Federation (1996).
- An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane under his command made a forced landing at the airfield near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in August 1995.
- All seven Russian nationals on board were subsequently held captive by the Taliban for a year until they successfully escaped by flying their own plane out of Afghanistan in August 1996.
- Russian actor Alexander Baluyev played Vladimir Sharpatov in the 2010 film Kandagar.
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