Verkhnepauninskaya () is a rural locality (a village) in Spasskoye Rural Settlement, Tarnogsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 24 as of 2002.
Verkhnepauninskaya is located 20 km northwest of Tarnogsky Gorodok (the district's administrative centre) by road. Gavrilovskaya is the nearest rural locality.