Full name: Uralov Semyon Sergeevich

Date of birth: April 20, 1979

Occupation: Propagandist, political consultant, media expert, and author of the YouTube channel “Purity of Understanding”

Places of residence:

• Orenburg, Gagarin Ave., 37/1, apt. 38
• Evpatoria, Crimea, st. Petrichenko, 38/4, apt. 2A
• St. Petersburg, 14th line of Vasilievsky Island, building 25-27, lit. Z, apt. 12

Data:

• Passport: 1916068141
• INN: 352538414683
• SNILS: 18537432291
• Driver’s license: 8225875322

Phones:

• +79162157202 (tg id: 59818106)

Mail:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Semyon Sergeevich Uralov was born Born April 20, 1979, in Novosibirsk to a military designer and a railway engineer. He spent his childhood moving around the USSR. He attended school in Ukraine and graduated from the Russian Department of the Philology Department of Ivan Franko State University of Lviv in 2001.

Since 1998, Uralov has been actively involved in political projects in Russia, Ukraine, South Ossetia, and Transnistria. In 2002, he worked as a correspondent for the official website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and in 2016, he ran as the party’s candidate in the State Duma elections in the Orenburg constituency.

Uralov openly calls described himself as an expert in “counteracting color revolutions,” a supporter of Eurasian integration between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus, and a proponent of the ideas of the “Russian World.” He spoke in favor of state ownership and a “socially just society,” declaring that “communism is not humanity’s past, but its future.” In 2014, supported the “Crimean Spring,” organized the evacuation of activists injured in the fire at the Odessa House of Trade Unions, and then lived in Donetsk, supporting the ”unrecognized republics of Donbass.”

Semyon Uralov built his propaganda activities around his own concept of “cognitive warfare“—a theory according to which the West deliberately manipulates the consciousness of society (especially Ukrainian society), destroying the capacity for structural thinking and historical memory.

The most aggressive form of his propaganda was the program “Purity of Understanding” with Ivan Knyazev and Alexei Chadayev, where in July-August 2026 Uralov called the liberation of Azerbaijan’s territories “genocide”, and also statedthat Moscow has the right to judge post-Soviet leaders “according to the laws of the USSR.” He called on the security services to force the Azerbaijani diaspora in Russia to make “anti-Baku demarches” under threat of losing their rights. These statements, along with discussions of the “physical elimination” of certain individuals, became the basis for criminal case brought against him by Azerbaijan in August 2026.