Sachneva Ulita

Name: Sachneva Ulita Mikhailovna
Date of Birth: August 30, 1954
Current status: convicted person
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (2)
Current restrictions: obligation to appear
Sentence: imprisonment for a period of 2 years, with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to leadership and participation in the work of public organizations (associations) for a period of 3 years, imprisonment be considered conditional with a probationary period of 1 year

Biography

In May 2023, the house of Ulita Sachneva and her husband Sergey was searched, which caused the elderly couple to experience stress. Because of their beliefs, they became defendants in a criminal case on extremism.

Ulita was born in August 1954 in the village of Kirga, Birobidzhan district, Jewish Autonomous Region. She has two younger brothers. She got a secondary technical education, then worked as an elevator operator and painter at a construction site, then retired. In her free time, she loved to read books, and now her main hobby is taking care of the garden.

In 1977, at work, Ulita met her future husband Sergey. He worked as a driver and loved fishing. Together they raised two sons.

At different periods of her life, Ulita lived in Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and the village of Khurba (Khabarovsk Territory), where the couple moved to take care of her mother.

In 1999, convinced that Bible prophecies were being fulfilled, Ulita embarked on the Christian path.

The Sachnevs' children empathize with their parents who have been prosecuted for their faith.

Elderly Prosecution of several family members

Case History

In May 2023, the homes of peaceful residents in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, as well as in Khurba and Molodezhniy, were searched during the night on religious grounds. The investigation initiated a criminal case against 10 believers: Vasiliy Bondarev and his mother Irina, Sergey and Ulita Sachnev, Nikolay Kovadnev, Ivan Nikitin, Mikhail Dorofeev, Radion Shitov, Marina Voytko and Svetlana Zharkova. They were charged with involving others in the activity of a banned organization. In 2024, the prosecutor’s office returned the case to the investigator twice. In October of the same year, the case went to court. All the defendants were added to the Rosfinmonitoring list, which made it difficult for them to pay bills and manage their assets. In October 2025, the court gave suspended sentences of 6 years to Dorofeev, Kovadnev and Shitov and 2 years to the Bondarevs, the Sachnevs, Zharkova, Voytko and Nikitin. Among the convicted persons, five are over 60.
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