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Published 15:03 6 Sept 2022 BST
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According to documents seen by The Insider, he was killed last month in the city of Artemovsk in Donetsk region.
A certificate for the 34-year-old lists his cause of death as "a gunshot explosive fragmentation penetrating wound to the head."
Neparatov is reported to have posthumously received a medal for courage that was signed by Putin.
He was also awarded a medal and orders "for blood and courage" from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
The head of NGO Russia Behind Bars Olga Romanova has stated that in some Russian prisons up to 20% of the jail population have been drafted to serve in the war against Ukraine.
"Approximately 20% of the prison population is recruited - if there are 1,300 people in prison, 300 are recruited," she told the Daily Mail.
"They are not taken out all at once.
"They take out several squads of 50-60 people at a time."
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