The head of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation's Moscow committee since 2004.

Ulas graduated from with a Gold Medal from the Higher Military Aviation Engineering College in Riga in 1982, after which he went on to study at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University.

Between 1985 - 2004 Ulas was teaching science at the Air Force Engineering Academy.

In 1999 Vladimir Ulas was awarded the rank of colonel in the Armed Forces of Russia.

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 when the Communist Party was banned by Boris Yeltsin, Ulas became a prominent member of Gennady Ziuganov's new Communist Party of the Russian Federation.