Biography
In 2021, a criminal case was opened against Sergey Vasiliyev, a pensioner who participated in the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline, only because of his belief in Jehovah God.
Sergey was born in Irkutsk in May 1951 into a family of musical theater artists. In 1955, they gave their son to be raised by their maternal grandparents. As a child, Sergey had many hobbies: fishing, hiking, collecting wild useful plants, cycling, as well as chess, skating, skiing, tennis, judo.
Immediately after school, Sergey got a job at a reinforced concrete products plant as a reinforcement worker. Upon his return from the army, where he served as a tanker, he acquired many professions: a car mechanic, a driver, an electrician, a slinger, a commodity expert of fur raw materials. He has certificates and gratitude. For the last 23 years he worked in an Irkutsk pharmacy, and in 2018 he retired.
Sergey began to study the Bible in 1993. About this time he said: “I have been looking for the meaning of life for a long time. When young and healthy, there is neither experience nor skills in work. Acquired both that, and another—there are neither forces, nor health. Nonsense. With Bible study, everything fell into place.” Having found answers to his questions, in 2002 Sergey embarked on the Christian path.
Sergey's hobbies include cycling, boating, fishing, hiking in the forest. Having lived in different regions of Russia, as well as in Latvia, Ukraine, Egypt and Thailand, he returned to his historical homeland.
None of Sergey's close relatives survived. He was married twice. The first wife died in 2008, the second did not become in 2020. Friends support the believer and consider criminal prosecution unfair.