Name: Pislyakov Aleksey Nikolayevich
Date of Birth: October 21, 1992
Current status: accused
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (1)
Current restrictions: recognizance agreement

Biography

Aleksey Pislyakov was born in October 1992 in Petropavlovka, Krasnoyarsk Territory. About a year later, his father died. When he was 5, he was taken into care and trasferred at the age of 9 to a children's home. He stayed there until he was 16 years old. Apart from Aleksey, there were four more children in the family — three sons and a daughter. He kept in touch with his mother until her death in 2024.

As a teenager, Aleksey played a lot of sports — tennis, athletics, ice hockey and volleyball; he took an active part in the life of the class and school. In 2009, he entered a vocational college, where he qualified as gas electric welder. He worked as a welder, then in building maintenance and as a janitor in a kindergarten.

From 2013 to 2015, Aleksey did alternative civilian service in Krasnoyarsk at the post office. His Bible-based beliefs prompted him to make such a choice. He says: "I have had faith in God since childhood, but when I found out that his name was Jehovah, I was very impressed and I wanted to know more." As a result of Aleksey's spiritual search he was baptized in 2013.

A year later, he met his future wife, Svetlana. In 2015, they got married. Svetlana likes taking pictures, embroidering and reading fiction; Aleksey likes cycling, playing football, as well as chess and board games. Together, the couple travel by car, camp outdoors, go mushroom picking and relax with friends.

Colleagues are worried about Aleksey and do not understand why a criminal case was initiated against him.

Case History

In November 2025, the Investigative Committee in Kansk initiated a criminal case against three believers — Andrey Sorokin, Yelena Kamenskaya, and Yelena Grosheva. The reason was a report from a woman who pretended to be interested in the Bible. Searches of the homes of the believers were conducted. Sorokin, Kamenskaya, and Grosheva were detained; afterward, Andrey was placed under house arrest, and the women were placed under a ban on certain actions. In December, all three defendants in the case were added to the Rosfinmonitoring list. In March 2026, another defendant was added to the criminal case—Aleksey Pislyakov, and Sorokin were transferred to a ban on certain actions. In August 2026, Andrey Sorokin died in a Krasnoyarsk hospital from pancreatic cancer.
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