Evgeny Goryainov
Evgeny Goryainov, born 1997. Charges: Article 205.3, Russian Criminal Code (Receiving training for the commission of terrorist crimes); Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in a terrorist community); “Yevgeniy Goryainov's case on involvement in the activities of the Azov battalion”. Sentenced on November 28, 2025. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since January 31, 2026; place of detention: Pre-trial detention centre No. 1, Rostov Oblast.
In brief
Military personnel · Terrorism cases
Sentence
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 205.3, Russian Criminal Code — Receiving training for the commission of terrorist crimes
- Article 205.4 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in a terrorist community
Latest event
January 31, 2026 — imprisonment begins
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Rostov Region
Timeline
· Imprisonment begins
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Rostov Region
· First-instance verdict
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Criminal case
Yevgeniy Goryainov's case on involvement in the activities of the Azov battalion
- Case number
- 1-635/2025
Write a letter
Facility: Pre-trial detention centre No. 1, Rostov Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
344022 г. Ростов-на-Дону, ул. Максима Горького, 219, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Ростовской области, Горяйнов Евгений Александрович, 1997 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Ukrainian serviceman. In the spring of 2022, he was captured in Mariupol. On 18 March 2024, a court in the occupied part of the Donetsk region of Ukraine sentenced him to 26 or 27 years in a strict regime colony on charges of attempted murder, conducting prohibited methods of warfare and damage to property: according to the investigation, he and other Ukrainian servicemen shelled residential houses and civilian infrastructure on the outskirts of Mariupol. In addition, a case was opened against him for participation in the activities of a terrorist community and undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities due to his involvement in the activities of the Azov battalion. In July 2025, the case went to court.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.3, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.