Mikhail Suprun

Mikhail Suprun Михаил Николаевич Супрун (born 5 April 1955 in Severodvinsk) is a Russian historian and professor of the Pomor State named after M. V. Lomonosov, now Northern (Arctic) Federal University.

[1] Mr.Suprun graduated from the Pomor State University (now The Northern Arctic Federal University), then – from the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and later from the Institute of Russian History of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, where he defended his doctoral dissertation on "Lend-lease and the Northern Convoys".

Leader of the archeological expedition "Echo of the war", member of the editorial board of "The Journal of Slavic Military Studies' He received a PhD in 1984.

Suprun is accused of infringing Article 137 of the Russian Criminal Code, which prohibits the exposing of "personal or family secrets" of victims of Soviet repression if their consent has not been given.

[1] The case was adjourned in December before a verdict was given, according to the charity Memorial in order to avoid negative publicity before Russia's parliamentary elections.