Name: Chaykovskiy Ivan Stepanovich
Date of Birth: May 1, 1955
Current status: convicted person
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (1)
Time spent in prison: 3 day in a temporary detention facility, 376 day in a pre-trial detention, 896 day Under house arrest, 553 day in prison
Current restrictions: detention center
Sentence: punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 6 years 3 months with serving a sentence in a correctional colony of general regime, with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to leadership and participation in the work of public organizations for a period of 3 years, with restriction of liberty for a period of 1 year
Term of imprisonment: until October 2027
Currently held in: Correctional Colony № 1, Yaroslavl Region

Chaykovskiy Ivan Stepanovich, born 1955, Correctional Colony № 1, Yaroslavl Region, Ul. Khlebnaya, 12, Yaroslavl, 150036

Letters of support can be sent by regular mail or through the F-pismo system. To pay for service with the card of a foreign bank use Prisonmail.

Parcels and parcels should not be sent because of the limit on their number per year.

Note: discussing topics related to criminal prosecution is not allowed in letters; languages other than Russian will not pass.

Case History

In November 2020, a massive special operation took place in Moscow — searches in 22 homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Vardan Zakaryan was hospitalized due to injuries inflicted by the law enforcement officers. He, as well as Vitaliy Komarov, Yuriy Chernyshev, Ivan Chaykovskiy and Sergey Shatalov were placed in a temporary detention facility. They were charged with organizing the activity of an extremist organization, and Zakaryan was charged with involving others in it. It is worth noting that in 2010 through the ECHR Chaykovskiy, obtained compensation for the violation of his rights due to the illegal liquidation of the Moscow Community of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In the winter of 2022 the case went to court. The charges were based on the testimony of FSB agent “Makarov”, who feigned an interest in the Bible. In March 2023, the court sentenced Chaykovskiy, Komarov, Chernyshev and Shatalov to 6 years and 3 months, and Zakaryan to 4 years and 3 months in a penal colony. The courts of appeals and cassation upheld this decision. Vardan Zakaryan was released in October 2025.
Back to top