Vladimir Petrovich Kartsev (Russian: Владимир Петрович Карцев) Russian scientist and writer. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor.
Kartsev was the head of the Russian foreign language publishing house Mir.
In 1966 he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of technical sciences on the topic "Some issues of calculation and design of magnetic systems with superconductors"
In 1982 he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences on the topic "The Leningrad Scientific School of Electrical Engineering and its Role in the Development of Electric Power Engineering in the USSR"
Research interests: electrical machines, strong magnetic fields, superconductivity.
He worked as a researcher at the Academy of Sciences, director of the Mir publishing house (1982-1989), director of the UN Publishing House in New York. (1989-1992). Since 1989 he has lived in the United States, owns the Fort Ross Inc. literary agency. Has two daughters.
Member of the Unions of Writers and Journalists, author of the books "The Adventures of Great Equations", "Treatise on Attraction", "Newton", "Maxwell", "Krzhizhanovsky" (ZhZL). Pseudonym K. Volodin.