He was born on June 27, 1948 in the village of Variogan in the Surgut (now Nizhnevartovsk) district. He began his career in 1966 as a worker at the Variogan branch of the Surgut Cooperative Industrial Enterprise.
In 1971 he graduated from the Khanty-Mansiysk Pedagogical College, in 1975 — the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. Since 1978, Aipin has been the editor of the district scientific and methodological center of folk art in Khanty-Mansiysk. He worked a lot on the folklore of Khanty, often went on ethnographic expeditions.
Since 1987, he has been a deputy of the Council of People’s Deputies of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. From 2001 to the present — Deputy of the Duma of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, Deputy Chairman of the Duma — Chairman of the Assembly of Representatives of Indigenous Peoples of the North.
In his work, Yeremey Aipin raises issues of morality and social justice that concern not only his people, but also all the peoples of our country.
Laureate of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Governor’s Award in the field of literature, the international literary award "Yugra", the All-Russian literary Award named after D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak, the Khanty—Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Yugra Award "For outstanding contribution to the socio-economic development of the Autonomous Okrug" (2018).
Awarded the Order of Honor (2021), medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland I (2006) and II degree (2000), badges "For excellent work", "For Services to the district" (2007), "For contribution to the development of legislation" (2008).