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 . In 2009 he was arrested in connection with a book he wrote on what Open Democracy has called a "trumped up charge".^[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”. As senior visitor he lectured and made a research at the Moscow State University (1989), Oxford University (1994), George Washington University (1998-1999), the Krakow Jagiellonian University (2000), the University of Tromsø (2003), the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2009). He is the author of over 180 scientific works, including 14 books as well as the compiler, editor and author of the year-books "The Northern Convoys: studies, memoirs and documents" (Moscow-Arkhangelsk, 1991-2001) and "The Forced Labor and the Political Exile in the North of Russia" (SPtb -Arhangelsk , 2003-2010). 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. In 1996 he earned the title of Doctor Habilitated from the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences.

• "Архангельск в годы Великой Отечественной войны". Ленинград, 1984
• "Политическая ссылка на Европейском Севере в конце 19 - начале 20 вв. Выпуск 1. 1895-1905 гг. Вологда, 1989 (co-author С.Я.Косухкин)
• "Люфтваффе под Полярной Звездой". Архангельск, 1996 (co-author Р.И.Ларинцев)
• "Ленд-лиз и северные конвои, 1941-1945 гг." М., 1997.
• "Освобождение Восточного Финнмарка, 1944 - 1945 гг." (co-author А. and В. Гёртер).
• "Frigjoringen I Nord-Norge 1944-1945". Vadso, 2015 (co-author А. and W. Gorter).