Korepanov was born on 6 January 1948 in
Naryan-Mar, which was then part of the
Russian SFSR. His father was a fisherman and his mother was a milkmaid. In 1973, he became an instructor and head of the department of the
Yamalo-Nenets committee, which he did until 1979. While working, in 1976, he graduated from the
Kiev Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers with a degree in
radio engineering and was a
Candidate of Sciences. After the collapse of the
Soviet Union in 1993, he became a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly, where he was a member of the Committee on Federation Affairs and Regional Policy until January 2002. Also, from 1996 to 1998, he was Chairman of the
State Duma of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. ==Legacy==