Biography of the number of Alexander

Alexander Mikhailovich Kuprev was born on March 14 on March 1 - according to the old style of the year in the village of Lugovoi Proleka, the Tsarevsky district of the Astrakhan province of the Russian Empire, the Bykovsky district of the Volgograd region of the Russian Federation in a peasant family. He graduated from seven classes of a comprehensive school, then worked at the Stalingrad Machine -Building Plant Barricada now - JSC Federal Scientific and Production Center Titan Barricades, Volgograd.

He studied at the Stalingrad aero club. He graduated from the Borisoglebsky Red Banner Military Aviation School named after V. Chkalov - Borisoglebsky Aviation Aviation Center for League training. After the end of the Aviation School, he was sent to serve in the Fighter Aviation Regiment of the IAP of the Kyiv Aviation Brigade of the Special Military District. The regiment took part in the battles as part of the Western, North-West and Kalinin fronts.

In July-August, Alexander Kuprev commanded the squadron of the GO, and then the Guards IAP of the 3rd Guards Fighter Division of the 1st Guards Fighter Aviation Corps of the Air Army. Alexander Kuprev in the regiment took part in the Battle of Kursk, then fought in the sky of Belarus and the Baltic states. Since December 16, after the death of the regiment commander, the guard of Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Fedotov, the guard Major Kupolov joined the command of the Guards IAP.

From February 22, he again held the post of deputy commander of the regiment. Kupolov was noted by the command as an experienced pilot and a competent commander, gifted with excellent organizational abilities. According to archival documents, in total, during the guard of the guard, Major Alexander Kuprev made combat sorties, personally shot down 21 enemy aircraft and two more in group battle.

At the same time, in an interview for the online project "I remember" the Russian writer Artem Dragkin, the publication of the year talked about more than the combat sorties and 33 shot down aircraft. Commanded M Guards IAP. In years he held the position of chief of airborne training of the Guards IAP. In June, the guard Colonel Kupolov went into the reserve. For a year, he worked as the head of the Tractor -Zavodsky rescue station in Stalingrad now - Volgograd.

He was elected three times as a deputy of the Tractorozavodsky District Council of Deputies of Stalingrad. He was buried in Volgograd at the Tractorozavodsky cemetery.

The awards of the Hero of the Soviet Union were awarded two orders of Lenin, two orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, two orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Red Star, medals.