Nikolai Uryupin: Biography
Nikolai Sergeyevich Uryupin was born on March 31, 1987, in the village of Bolshaya Glushitsa, Samara Region. He grew up there and married a woman from the same village; they are both from the same village. He attended School No. 2 in Bolshaya Glushitsa from 1994 to 2004. He graduated from the Orenburg Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command School, Faculty of Radio Engineering, Department of Radio Engineering, class of 2009.
He began his service in the town of Toksovo in the Leningrad Region, where air defense units of the 6th Air Force and Air Defense Army of the Russian Federation are stationed. He then served in Voronezh and Ostrogozhsk, and from 2019 served in Smolensk. In 2021, he served in Valuyki in the Belgorod Region, right on the border with Ukraine. From 2021 to 2023, he served again in Smolensk. He participated in exercises and tests of anti-aircraft missile systems at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan Region and the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
He is currently a lieutenant colonel and an air defense officer with the headquarters of the “West” military group of the Russian Federation. He is registered in the town of Toksovo in the Leningrad Region, while his wife, Anna Sergeevna Uryupina, lives in the closed military town of Marshal Zhukov.
Uryupin regularly violated traffic laws and accumulated several traffic fines in 2017. He was involved in two traffic accidents while driving a Kia Sportage, in 2014 and 2020.
War Crimes Committed by Nikolai Uryupin
The headquarters of the “West” military group, where Uryupin serves, has been coordinating missile strikes against the civilian population of Ukraine in the Kharkiv and Kupiansk areas since the very first days of the invasion.
On February 28, 2022, russian forces fired “Smerch” multiple-launch rocket system cluster munitions at residential neighborhoods in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv, as well as a school and a kindergarten. Eight civilians were killed, including a 17-year-old teenager, and another woman was seriously injured. The investigation established that the decision to launch the strikes was prepared by the head of the fire and nuclear strike group at the headquarters of the “West” military group. An indictment under Part 2 of Article 28 and Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine has been submitted to the court.
The attacks on Kharkiv continued unabated. On August 2 and 6, 2022, S-300 missiles struck residential and industrial areas of the city. On September 7, the Nemyshlyanskyi district and the town of Zmiiv were hit. On February 9, 2023, up to 35 S-300 missiles were fired at the region—leaving approximately 150,000 civilians without power. On January 3, 2024, a school, a kindergarten, and residential buildings in central Kharkiv were destroyed. On April 5–6, 2024, eight civilians were killed, 11 were injured, and high-rise buildings, schools, and kindergartens were damaged. On May 31, 2024, a missile struck a five-story residential building—four people were killed, and 25 were injured. On October 2, 2024, an attack on Kharkiv and Dergachi injured ten people, including a three-year-old child. For each incident, the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office opened criminal proceedings under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
All those involved will be identified and held accountable for their crimes.
Nikolai Uryupin’s family
Uryupin is married to Anna Sergeevna Uryupina (born January 21, 1987; née Korneva), a native of the same village of Bolshaya Glushitsa in the Samara Region. Throughout the Russian military officer’s career, the family moved with him, from their home village to Toksovo, then to Voronezh and Smolensk. Currently, his wife lives in the village of Marshal Zhukov near Kursk. The rashist has a son, Alexei Nikolaevich (born August 25, 2011), who was born in the village of Bolshaya Glushitsa. His son attended Lyceum No. 65 in Smolensk.
Sergey Nikolaevich Uryupin (born March 28, 1960), the father of a rashist, lives in the village of Bolshaya Glushitsa at 2 Leningradskaya Street, Apartment 1.
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