The People's Patriotic Union of Russia (NPSR; Russian: Народно-патриотический союз России, romanized: Narodno-patrioticheskiy soyuz Rossii) was a political association in Russia, created on August 7, 1996 by political parties and public organizations that supported Gennady Zyuganov in the presidential elections.

The CPRF really distanced itself from Mikhail Lapshin and Alexey Podberezkin, who collaborated with the Fatherland-All Russia bloc in the 1999 elections.

In the summer of 2000, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Aman Tuleyev noted that the difficulties in the NPSR and the Russian patriotic movement are related, among other things, to the reluctance of the “party generals” (first secretaries of the regional Communist Party committees) to give up their seats on the election lists to their allies.

On the eve of the III Congress of the NPSR, the KRC accused the Coordinating Council of the NPSR of violating the rules of the charter during the preparation of the congress: violation of the norms of representation (which ensured the hegemony of the communists to the detriment of the allies), the absence of reports on the agenda of the chairmen of the Coordination Council, the executive committee and the Control and Auditing Commission.

The assignment of the powers of the Congress of the NPSR in terms of electing the Chairman of the executive committee at a meeting of the Coordinating Council was also noted.

The article, citing closed sources, said that the presidential administration and the headquarters of Yeltsin's "Family" were preparing a "coup in the ranks of the opposition" by introducing their "agents of influence" into the NPSR and intercepting leadership.

On January 14, 2003, Zyuganov wrote in his article: "It is necessary, without delay, to regulate the activities of all structures of the NPSR, to overcome the bureaucracy of the Executive Committee leadership."

Commenting on the letter from Semigin, in which he announced the suspension of funding, Zyuganov said: "I would like to remind all sorts of 'merchants' who are trying to slap the party with their wallet on the shoulder and strive to privatize the CPRF and the NPSR: they will never succeed!".

In December 2003, at the Congress of the CPRF, Semigin was nominated as a candidate from the Communist Party in the Presidential elections in Russia on March 14, 2004.

All organizations of the CPRF were ordered to "resist attempts to destroy the party, turning it into a servant of capital and the current regime.

In Prokhanov's novel "Politolog", which describes these and other events, a character named Semizhenov appears (a millionaire trying to take control of the patriotic movement).

[5] Later, the NPSR became part of the center-left coalition "Patriots of Russia" of Semigin, and practically lost its political significance.