Igor Uporov
Igor Nikolaevich Uporov, born September 4, 1965, in Tambov, Russia, is a lawyer and a former colonel who founded and leads the Ural-Siberian Bar Association. After finishing school in Irbit in 1982, he worked at a motorcycle plant and studied at Sverdlovsk Polytechnic University and the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He began serving in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1986 and earned a law degree, gaining broad experience in many departments. From 1992 to 1997 he worked in Nizhni Tagil, and in 1999 he joined the Sverdlovsk region Bar.
As an advocate, he represented businesses and people in arbitration and general courts, including the Supreme Court. In 2004 he became head of the legal department at the regional center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, leaving private practice to work for the government. He retired as a colonel and chief of the Legal Department of the Ural Regional Center MoE, after participating in more than 2,000 court sessions.
On September 2, 2011, he founded the Ural-Siberian Bar Association and became its president. The association provides legal representation in many Russian cities and also serves foreign clients. Uporov is known for handling arbitration, administrative, civil and criminal cases, contractual and labor law, military law, immigration, and export-import matters. He has received 15 medals and an honorary diploma, along with more than 20 other recognitions. He continues to study, write, and speak on legal issues, and frequently appears on TV and at conferences.
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